Social Security Update, Important please read, and be NICE, Please!

[gypsy2621]

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This confuses me because I worked with a family whose mother died at the age of 24 leaving behind a 4 yr old and a 6 yr old. Mama had severe diabetes and sadly went blind in the months before her death.

I was helping this family through my position at a Community Action Agency and offered to help Grandma (who then had custody) get Social Security Death Benefits for the children, one of whom is special needs.

I was told by SS that because Mama never worked (DUH, she was extremely ill for her entire life) that the children werent eligible for benefits. I thought I was talking to an idiot so I called again...and again...same answer. I kept thinking that I wasnt giving them the right info or something cause I kept getting shot down.

Can anyone explain why there is such a dramatic difference between SSD and the other SS's?

SSI is supposed to pick up where SSD and Social Security drops the ball.
For children left parentless I can see them picking up and helping the children.
If the Grand Mother has custody of the Children she can go to well basically the welfare dept and get the med and benifits for the children she is going to need.
All she needs is a court ordered Guardianship paper. They can not refuse her or the children the help.

 

[beak]

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This confuses me because I worked with a family whose mother died at the age of 24 leaving behind a 4 yr old and a 6 yr old. Mama had severe diabetes and sadly went blind in the months before her death.

I was helping this family through my position at a Community Action Agency and offered to help Grandma (who then had custody) get Social Security Death Benefits for the children, one of whom is special needs.

I was told by SS that because Mama never worked (DUH, she was extremely ill for her entire life) that the children werent eligible for benefits. I thought I was talking to an idiot so I called again...and again...same answer. I kept thinking that I wasnt giving them the right info or something cause I kept getting shot down.

Can anyone explain why there is such a dramatic difference between SSD and the other SS's?

My wife hasn't worked since 1995 and her ss benefit statement shows a much lower benefit than mine.

 

[beak]

You have to have a SS # to collect benefits. You have to have paid in to the system or had a spouse or parent that paid in. I don't know where anyone is getting undeserved funds. I'm sure the illegals will come up. well illegals use stolen SS numbers. They pay SS every week but they never get to collect on it since the number is not theirs.If you know first hand about someone collecting SS that doesn't deserve it you should turn them in. I'm sure there are a lot of people claiming disability and working under the table.

 

[debilorrah]

pips&peeps :

As someone else stated in an editorial on the web page, we need to stop giving SS benefits to people who have never paid in.

While I understand the bottom line point you are making, if this were the case, hundreds of thousands of women who were stay at home mothers all their lives would be homeless. It wasn't until the 70's and 80's that 2 incomes were the norm.​

 

[Whispering Winds]

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While I understand the bottom line point you are making, if this were the case, hundreds of thousands of women who were stay at home mothers all their lives would be homeless. It wasn't until the 70's and 80's that 2 incomes were the norm.

I agree. My mother never worked outside the home, and drew off of my dad for 20 years before she died . . . but she lived off it, and never touched her little bit of savings she had, so she sure didn't live high on the hog, as they say. If a person is married to another person, then they should be able to draw off what the other person made, because my dad drew three checks and died . . .so there was all that money in there he had paid in, and who else should get it? I don't have a bit of problem with that situation; its the one who come here and don't do a darn thing and get all the free stuff. It isn't right, and its taking food out of deserving people.

 

[debilorrah]

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While I understand the bottom line point you are making, if this were the case, hundreds of thousands of women who were stay at home mothers all their lives would be homeless. It wasn't until the 70's and 80's that 2 incomes were the norm.

I agree. My mother never worked outside the home, and drew off of my dad for 20 years before she died . . . but she lived off it, and never touched her little bit of savings she had, so she sure didn't live high on the hog, as they say. If a person is married to another person, then they should be able to draw off what the other person made, because my dad drew three checks and died . . .so there was all that money in there he had paid in, and who else should get it? I don't have a bit of problem with that situation; its the one who come here and don't do a darn thing and get all the free stuff. It isn't right, and its taking food out of deserving people.

Now that I agree with!!!!!

 

[Mahonri]

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Was this NICE????

 

[debilorrah]

Dude. The OP asked us to be nice.

 

[Mahonri]

Deb, do you also think we should have DEATH PANELS?

 

[debilorrah]

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Of course not, but that conversation is probably left best to another forum. Doncha think?