A collection of letters & other items: these stapled batches were filed based on letters sent from Wilson’s office from April to October 1962 and most reflect inquiries related to the Social Security Administration in behalf of Wilson’s constituents. Examples are: letters (4/62) re/ Coronado constituent Mrs. Salena Small was unable to receive old age insurance benefits as a housekeeper and baby-sitter because she lacked the credits for this service; letters (Jan.-Apr. ’62) re/ the problems of S.D. constituent H. W. Doud in receiving an adequate Social Security payment; letters (Jan.-Apr. ’62) re/ Chula Vista constituent Lillian R. Puckett’s “relief to me and I wish to express my appreciation to you and your staff for helping in getting this problem straightened out;” letters (Jan.-Apr. ’62) re/ the claim of Mr. Moses L. Trim for disability benefits was successful; letters (Mar.-May ’62) re/ La Mesa constituent Mrs. L. Hinnrichs receives comments from Wilbur Mills (Chairman Ways and Means Committee) as to her suggestion that the law should be amended to eliminate divorce as a bar to the receipt of wives’ or widows’ benefits; letters & memo (Apr.- June ’62) re/ comments from the Ways and Means Committee to Wilson and constituent Joseph Browne as to pending legislation liberalizing the retirement test provisions of Title II of the Social Security Act; letters (Jan.-June) re/ a suggestion from Mrs. Harrison Williams to make Social Security old age benefits more accessible to all Americans; letters (5/21 & 6/7/62) re/ El Cajon constituent Mrs. Mamie E. Bailey (a 70-year old widow) wrote that she wished she “had the money to help with your campaign” and then indicated “I wish you could do something to get social security raised. There are a lot of us older people don’t get enough to get by on;” letters (Mar.-June) re/ National City constituent Mrs. Erman Donald’s inquiry related to her husband’s eligibility for Social Security benefits; letters (Apr.-July) re/ Mr. Bryant D. Sillman’s success, with Wilson’s assistance, in having his self-employed mother “declared eligible for benefits beginning February, 1961;” letters (May-July) re/ 80 year-old Bishop John E. Caldwell (Apostolic Faith Temple, San Diego) has frustrations with obtaining benefits from the Social Security Administration; letters (June-July) re/ San Diego constituent Guy Hunt. This a good example of the difficulty of those born before 1900 in obtaining adequate birth certificates to substantiate eligibility for old age benefits; letters (June –July) re/ the concerns of constituent Miss Mary Blume about the Social Security Trust Funds continuing to be available with the growing aging population; stapled packet of correspondence (Aug.-Sept.) re/ the complicated story of constituent Mrs. Elizabeth J. Trost (a widow since 1946), her access to adequate benefits and other issues; letters (Aug.-Sept.) re/ the lack of enough quarters of work under the Social Security Act prohibited a 70 year-old Kansas widow from eligibility for old age benefits; letters (Aug.-Oct.) re/ Chula Vista constituent Mrs. Nellie B. Janowski’s recommendation “to have the Social Security Laws amended so a Widow or Widower, can draw both the husband and wife’s social security at the death of either one or the other. . . . It seems a shame that we can dole out literally millions to foreign nationals and cannot give our own wage earners what had been lawfully or unlawfully taken from their earnings.”