Your Children’s Benefits Under Your Social Security Account
The Social Security Administration provides more benefits to children than to any other group. Children are eligible for social security benefits under the account of a parent, step parent, or foster parent that is either disabled or retired (and therefore eligible for Social Security benefits). They are also eligible if said guardian has died after paying social security taxes a long enough period to qualify their survivors for benefits.
Children can receive benefits if they are:
• Unmarried,
• Under 18,
• Or, 18 to 19 years old and still attending elementary or secondary school full time,
• Or, over the age of 18 and disabled before the age of 22.