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they suffer from severe disability which began in childhood, according to Mrs. Crumpton.
“Persons disabled since childhood are eligible ro receive social security benefits if a parent who has worked under social security retires, becomes disabled, or dies,” she explained.
“These payments can mean a great deal to the recipients and their families,” she stated. She qited as another example a 29-year-old man, mentally retarded since birth, whose parents were killed in a car wreck. “One of his sisters wanted to take him into her home,” Mrs. Crumpton stated, “but she and her husband couldn’t afford the extra expense. However, his sister learned he was eligible for childhood disability benefits because their father had worked under social security. The social security payments enabled the sister and her husband to take care of her brother in their home. These payments meant the difference between care at home and life in an institution for this young man.”
“It’s not necessary for a person disabled since childhood to have worked under social security, since his benefits are paid on the basis of his father’s or mother’s social security record. “Normally a child receiving payments based on his parents’ work record would stop receiving checks at age 18 if he was not in school, or at 22 if he stayed in school and did not marry,” Mrs. Crumpton went on. “However, a child’s payments may continue indefinitely or start at any age if he has a severe physical or mental handicap which began before 18 and which will keep him from working as an adult. Nearly 65 percent of those receiving childhood disability benefits are mentally retarded.”
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