31.   On the one hand, it would be an advantage to be the only kid in your preschool who gets monthly Social Security checks.

32.   Now, most of these people live on monthly Social Security checks, modest pensions and, for the more energetic among them, small incomes from part-time jobs.

33.   She makes do with the pittance, supplementing the monthly checks with housecleaning whenever she can and her father helps out with money whenever he can.

34.   She obtained the card based on her monthly Social Security check, Jackwig said.

35.   She gets the house and a hefty monthly check for child support.

36.   Simply ask the fund to reinvest any capital gains and to send you regular monthly checks that represent a little less than the predictable dividend level.

37.   She no longer gets a monthly check, although her children are enrolled in Medicaid and she receives food stamps.

38.   Sometimes they stay only a week before going crazy with nothing to do at night except watch cable television in the houses their monthly checks helped build.

39.   That means dealing with only one company and writing only one monthly check.

40.   The biggest adjustment for retirees who participated in a partly privatized program would be a smaller monthly Social Security check.