Legal Question in Social Security Law in California
social sec. employee benefits
my mother passed away recently due to cancer , im 30 now and i wanted to know if i can recieve any benefits from her social security or work benefits , my father is recieving survivors benefits but what can i do to recieve anything ? thanks in advance. - jose
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: social sec. employee benefits
I do not beleive you are entitled to any Childrens Benefits. I have attached the current statute that effects Childrens benefits.
�404.350 Who is entitled to child's benefits.
(a) General. You are entitled to child's benefits on the earnings record of an insured person who is entitled to old-age or disability benefits or who has died if�
(1) You are the insured person's child, based upon a relationship described in ��404.355 through 404.359;
(2) You are dependent on the insured, as defined in ��404.360 through 404.365;
(3) You apply;
(4) You are unmarried; and
(5) You are under age 18; you are 18 years old or older and have a disability that began before you became 22 years old; or you are 18 years or older and qualify for benefits as a full-time student as described in �404.367.
(b) Entitlement preclusion for certain disabled children. If you are a disabled child as referred to in paragraph (a)(5) of this section, and your disability was based on a finding that drug addiction or alcoholism was a contributing factor material to the determination of disability (as described in �404.1535) and your benefits ended after your receipt of 36 months of benefits, you will not be entitled to benefits based on disability for any month following such 36 months regardless of the number of entitlement periods you have had if, in such following months, drug addiction or alcoholism is a contributing factor material to the later determination of disability (as described in �404.1535).
[44 FR 34481, June 15, 1979, as amended at 48 FR 21927, May 16, 1983; 60 FR 8146, Feb. 10, 1995; 61 FR 38363, July 24, 1996]