Background
Fuller was born on a farm outside Ludlow, Vermont.
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Career
She received the check, amounting to $22.54, on January 31, 1940. She retired in 1939, having paid just three years of payroll taxes. She received monthly Social Security checks until her death in 1975 at age 100.
By the time of her death, Fuller had collected $22,888.92 from Social Security monthly benefits, compared to her contributions of $24.75 to the system.
She later said about going to the Social Security office, "lieutenant wasn"t that I expected anything, mind you, but I knew I"d been paying for something called Social Security and I wanted to ask the people in Rutland about lieutenant".
