There are three ways a child is eligible for social security benefits. Supplemental security benefits are paid to disabled children younger than eighteen whose income is limited or come from homes with low income and resources. Social security dependents benefits are paid to children under eighteen on the record of a parent who is collecting retirement or disability benefits, or of the parent who was receiving those benefits has died. The age of qualification for benefits extends to nineteen if the child is if he or she is a full time student in elementary or high school. Social security benefits are also obtainable for adults who have been disabled since childhood. To receive benefits, the adult child must be the son or daughter of someone who is getting social security retirement or disability benefits, or of someone who has died, and the child's disability started before age twenty-two. For more information call your local social security office.
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