Does anyone know about how people received their Old Age Pension back in 1908. My grandfather was a self employed Pole Cutter and froze his leg's in the Missouri River and had to have them cut off when he was 42 yr's old. He had no insurance and he had no Social Security Number when he died at the ripe old age of 96. He was getting some kind of a check each month, I am sure of it. I have called the Social Security Office and they told me he never collected a check from them, but he lived in a nursing home for 3 month's before he died. No one in the family paid the bill and I know that Nursing Home Care is not free. So where would I begin to look for old age pension checks around 1906? does anyone have any clues? I would be most thanful. Joan