Legal Question in Social Security Law in Pennsylvania
Social Security Disability Check
When a person dies and a social security disability check arrives the day of his death and he has no spouse and his children are both married and over 18 years of age, can the check be used for outstanding bills. The check covered a legitimate period of disability.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Social Security Disability Check
I assume you mean outstanding bills of the deceased person - not someone else's bills.
Who can sign the check and use the money is what you are really asking. So, this is really an estate question too.
Only the deceased or his executor can sign the check! So if the deceased did not sign the check before he died, only a court appointed executor can sign.
The money can be use for anything the executor deems proper, but the money is now the property of the deceased person's estate. Unless this is the deceased's only asset, you may need to probate an estate.
The SS check rec'd in the month of death is payment for the previous month. The check received next month must be returned to SSA.
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