It's up to you to protect your job insurance benefits
Notice sheet for servicemen: 'IT'S UP TO' overprinted on a large red 'YOU', with instructions to get a card from the company clerk, fill it in and return it, and a sample form at lower right. The loss-of-benefits framing is the fear-appeal tell; the technique is faint on this plain instruction sheet.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, Social Security Board
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Federal Security Agency, Social Security Board. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1134 (NAID 514661).
Text on the object
IT'S UP TO YOU TO PROTECT YOUR JOB INSURANCE BENEFITS IF YOU HAVE WORKED IN A JOB INSURED BY A STATE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW, PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO FUTURE BENEFITS. GET A CARD LIKE THIS FROM YOUR COMPANY CLERK. FILL IT IN AND RETURN IT TO HIM AT ONCE ! Laws are being proposed in most States to protect the benefit rights of men who entered military service after April 1, 1940. To protect your rights under any such legislation, the special card should be completed and returned to your company clerk for mailing to the Social Security Board. SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD FSA E.S.-87 R.B.S. 4-41 [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16—20743] [sample form, small print:] READ CAREFULLY INSTRUCTIONS ON BACK OF THIS FORM (PLEASE PRINT) SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER 1. NAME (First) (Middle) (Last) 3. CAMP ADDRESS 4. HOME ADDRESS 5. I ENTERED MILITARY SERVICE ON (Month) (Day) (Year) 6. DURING THE 2 YEARS PRIOR TO THIS DATE I WORKED IN THE FOLLOWING STATES: 7. I LAST WORKED FOR (Employer's name) (Address) FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD Form SS-[illegible] 3-41
