Am I eligible to receive benefits for a child?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I have physical and legal custody of my neice. My sister receive disability due to her mental illness and I wanted to know if I would be able to collect disability for my neice? I have had her since she was 6months old.

ashley (not verified)
Wed, 07/19/2017 - 07:18 Permalink

i have 2 sons, 4 and 7. im 30 years old and my husband is 74. someone told me due to my husbands age that my children could qualify for benefits. is that true.

Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 10/03/2017 - 11:32 Permalink

My daughter has adhd and is on medication is she qualify ?

Milourie (not verified)
Mon, 10/30/2017 - 15:15 Permalink

My son is 2 year old. Back in August, his neurologist diagnoses him with high spectrum autism. I am gonna have to quit my job to care of him with all the appts : Behavior therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy. But before I would like to know if he can qualify for disability.

Rosita (not verified)
Mon, 10/30/2017 - 15:21 Permalink

My husband had a severe scoliosis. he is 40. Since he was a kid he's using crutches for everything, he works he makes $42000 per year, He wonder if he can get disability while is working.

Bryan

In reply to by Rosita (not verified)

Wed, 11/01/2017 - 10:11 Permalink

H Rosita,
He may not be able to as he has been able to work despite his scoliosis, and SSDI benefits are intended for people who are unable to work.

Chrysti (not verified)
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 10:38 Permalink

Go to your local ss office. Take all of your legal documentation. Take the child with you and have her "payee" changed to you. They will probable go after her for falsely receiving payments for a child that hasn't been in her custody.

Anonymous (not verified)
Fri, 11/10/2017 - 06:55 Permalink

My mother receives disability. While I️ was still in school should, could I️ have received a check as well? If so can I️ get back pay now? I️ just turned 21

Eric

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Fri, 11/10/2017 - 15:08 Permalink

Hi There,

Since you are over the age of 18, you will not be able to qualify for auxillary benefits off of your mother's disability benefits.

Denise (not verified)
Sun, 01/28/2018 - 01:24 Permalink

My son is 12 and has severe ODD and ADHD . I had to quit my job cause of his behavior and getting intouble with the law. He can not be left alone at all. Can I get ssi for him .he also has a learning disability and on an IEP for it.

Bryan

In reply to by Denise (not verified)

Tue, 01/30/2018 - 09:32 Permalink

Hi Denise,
You may be able to however you would need to meet the SSA's income and resources limits.

Marcella (not verified)
Tue, 01/30/2018 - 07:19 Permalink

I've been recieving SSI since i was 21 for depression, anxiety & trickitillimania. My daughter is 11 years old. Does she also qualify for benefits?

Marcella (not verified)

In reply to by Eric

Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:57 Permalink

Hi. Eric, I appriciate your reply. I will check into it.

H. Brake (not verified)
Wed, 01/31/2018 - 13:24 Permalink

When I was down in NC I was talking to a supervisor and he set me up for an appointment to apply for my new husband's SSDI auxillary benefits. She is 11 currently receives only $152 from mine bc I have 4 drawing from mine and then gets SSI for her own disabilities. When I talked to my OH worker which is usually really good and thorough he said he looked it up and said (bc she would draw like $550-$650 off his bc he has no one else drawing and his is like $110 more than mine gross) to even potentially be eligible she would have to be have been receiving more than 1/2 of her support for 12+ consecutive months to be even potentially eligible?? He said that was verbatim he said. Bc I also wanted to apply for my soon to be 18 year old bc she won't graduate from high school until at least 19 years 2 months but she works and is a ft student and will continue to be until after her 19 yrs 2 mo. None of my kids have ever really received any support from their bio dad whether he was living with us or not. He owes like $15-20K in c/s rn I would guess. He works but like on FB profile hides it saying he is self employed but is really working somewhere, he lives with his dad which gets like a $60K/yr pension plus SSRI probably between the 2 $100K/yr plus they receive $152 for my 2 sons that live with them and my 1 son receives SSI. If I can get my ex dead beat dad (he owed at another time like $20K and I was dumb and forgave that) he's provided in their whole life maybe like 5% of their support. If my new husband would adopt her bc she don't even really talk to or only 1 hr away visit ever her pt working dad off & on....bc my new husband is a much better father to her than her sperm donor and is here taking care of me and her everyday would she still have to wait the 12 months and meet the more than 1/2 support?

Bryan

In reply to by H. Brake (not verified)

Thu, 02/01/2018 - 13:22 Permalink

HI there,
Your child may need to be adopted by your husband and she may also need to meet those requirements to qualify.

Heather (not verified)
Thu, 11/29/2018 - 19:15 Permalink

Hello my son is eleven and he has ADHD also been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.the school said something about a meeting for his iep.would he qualify for ssi

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