Mom and adult son with Down syndrome smiling together.
Mom and adult son with Down syndrome walking together.
SSI for Children: How to Qualify
The rules for SSI disability benefits for children are long and involved.
These are the basics.
- The child’s family must meet certain financial criteria with limited income and resources.
- The child must have a qualifying physical disability or mental condition that seriously limits his or her activities.
- The child’s impairment must have lasted, or surely will last, at least one year.
To back up each of these points, the Social Security Administration (SSA) requires you to send detailed information about your child, their medical conditions and the financial resources available for their support.
The Clarkson Pennington Social Security Disability attorneys help you gather this information, file an SSI claim and seek the maximum amount of benefits available to provide for your child’s needs.
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Adult male with down syndrome smiling.
Disabled Adult Child Benefits: How to Qualify
Even after your child reaches adulthood, they may be eligible for another kind of disability benefits under SSDI.
SSDI is for people who worked and paid into the Social Security system. Unlike SSI, it doesn’t have limits on your financial means, other than your ability to work. You could have savings, property and investments, but you must be unable to work.
If you as a parent have enough Social Security credits from working, your adult child whose health problems began in youth could receive disability benefits based on your earnings record.
Your child, after all, has never had the chance to work and get credit in the Social Security system.
The basics:
- Your adult child’s disability must have begun before they were 22.
- Your adult child must have qualifying health impairments and can’t work.
- Your child has never been married (unless their spouse also received disability benefits).
- Your child has never been gainfully employed.
- At least one of their parents must be receiving either Social Security Disability or retirement benefits.
- Or your adult child can qualify if a parent who was eligible has died.
Once the benefits (including monthly checks) begin, they can continue as long as your child remains unable to work due to health problems.
If your child marries someone who doesn’t qualify for disability benefits, then their benefits may stop.
And if your adult child previously worked enough for Social Security to consider it a substantial amount, they won’t be eligible for this particular benefit.
A disability lawyer from Clarkson Pennington can get you and your child through this process and into a more secure situation.
You pay no fee for your disability attorney until you win benefits.
Get in touch with us right away to start protecting your family’s financial future.
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Do You Have Questions About Social Security Disability?
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