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Disabled Young Man Gains Social Security Aid After Accident
Jose Lujan of Alpine was paralyzed from the neck down after a 1966 Odessa car crash. Despite initial denial, new rules lowered insured status to six quarters for those under 24, yielding a $117.30 monthly benefit from February 1968 and support for his wife and two children Joe J. and Alberto.
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T.R. Hadley
Social Security Office
Odessa
Jose L. Lujan
5Th Street
Alpine
Lujan
Case
Brewster Memorial Hospital