First Claim For Disability "Freeze" Taken On This Date In 1955

According to Social Security's history office, "This photo shows the first disability freeze application being taken in the Wheeling, West Virginia office on January 2, 1955. The applicant (left) is Mr. William Calvin King. The claim is being taken by the local Social Security office manager, Edgar Allen Poe (no foolin'!)." The earnings record "freeze", or period of disability to be technically correct, was enacted two years before cash disability benefits.