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Disabled Receiving
SS Benefits
More than 245,000 adults disabled since birth or since childhood are now receiving >ocial security benefits, Mrs. Hazel F. Crumpton, social security district manager in Winchester, Va., said today. These benefits, Mrs. Crumpton said, are payable to an unmarried disabled son or daughter when a parent is receiving social security retirement or disability benefits, they are also payable when a working parent dies. Under a 1967 change in the social security law, the son or daughter of a woman worker need not have been dependent upon her for support. Now, she said, the benefits are payable on the mother’s social security record if she worked long enough under social security at any time before her death to become insured.
To qualify for these benefits, Mrs. Crumpton said, the disability must have begun before the child was 18 years old, and whether physical or mental, must be severe enough to keep the person from engaging in substantial gainful work. It must also be expected to last for 12 or more months or is expected to result in death.
If a child with a severly disabling condition is now receiving child’s benefits which will stop when he reaches 18, he or someone in the family should get in touch with the social security office about 6 months before the 18th birthday, so that the benefits can be continued.
The mother of the disabled son
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