COLCHESTER, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) - On the Social Security Program's 90th birthday, we're learning more about its beginnings - including that the first person to receive a recurring payment was from Vermont.

Ida May Fuller was born September 6, 1874.

Fuller lived on a farm outside of Ludlow, and went to school in Rutland. She was even classmates with Calvin Coolidge.

One day, she stopped by Rutland’s Social Security office, to ask about possible benefits. “It wasn’t that I expected anything, mind you," she said, "but I knew I’d been paying for something called Social Security and I wanted to ask the people in Rutland about it.”

Her claim was reviewed and sent to the Treasury Department for payment in 1940, and it turned out that hers was the first one on the list, and eventually turned int

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