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Social security,disability question

The Social Security web site has this chart: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10077.html Your question leaves out some important details such as your age, and whether you qualified by your own earnings for Social Security, and whether you are disabled. Generally, you would not be able to draw a retirement benefit before you reach age 62. You could only draw a disability benefit based on his earnings if you were older than age 50 and he were deceased. I do not think you qualify for...

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Qualify for disability?

The Social Security "Blue Book" answer is as follows: "Q. Who can get disability benefits under Social Security? A. Under the Social Security disability insurance program (title II of the Act), there are three basic categories of individuals who can qualify for benefits on the basis of disability: * A disabled insured worker under full retirement age. * An individual disabled since childhood (before age 22) who is a dependent of a parent entitled to title II disability...

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Can a stepchilds' benefit reduce the benefits of a legitimate child if the mom and dad w not together DEATH?

Yes. There is a family maximum death or survivor benefit, another person taking benefits makes the pieces of the pie for everyone else smaller.