An undetermined number of families would be eligible to collect benefits for deceased workers.
Legend has it that one of the building materials used was the bones of deceased workers.
During Dr. Spiritis's tenure, the city learned that it had been paying health insurance for deceased workers.
Children of deceased workers are entitled to monthly Social Security checks until they are 18 (or 19, if they are still in high school).
Currently, seven million survivors of deceased workers and four million disabled Americans receive income support.
In addition, spokesmen for the elderly note that many Social Security beneficiaries are children, disabled workers and nonelderly survivors of deceased workers.
Compensation was increased for the dependents of deceased workers (1936).
A divorced widow can generally qualify for benefits if she was married to the deceased worker for 10 years before they were divorced.
The Act lowered the age for receiving the government old age pension from 70 to 65, as well as providing for dependents of deceased workers.
In 2007 an inquiry was launched into the removal of tissue from a total of 65 deceased nuclear workers, some of whom worked at Sellafield.