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Show Disability funds for youth may now be obtained 'additional information about this provision of the social security se-curity law may be obtained from Provo, Utah office, 170 North 200 West, telephone 374-5011, 374-5011, extension 7291. They are open from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. weekdays, Monday is extended ex-tended to 6:30 p.m. If a child with a severely disabling dis-abling condition is presently receiving social security benefits bene-fits which will stop when he reaches age 18, an application for childhood disability benefits should be filed at last six months before the 18th birthday. birth-day. This will allow enough time to process the claim without with-out an interuption in receipt of the monthly check. Disability has no respect for age. It strikes the very young as well as the very old. Congress Con-gress recognized that some of these young people would never nev-er be self-supporting. They realized rea-lized that some provision had to be made in the social security secur-ity program for their future support. So in 1957, an amendment amend-ment was passed enabling benefits ben-efits to be paid to severely disabled dis-abled adult children age 18 or over,, based on the earnings of a retired, disabled or deceased parent. Under a recent change in the social security law, the son or daughter of a woman worker need not have been dependent upon her for support. If she worked long enough under social so-cial security before her retirement, retire-ment, disabled or death payments pay-ments to the child can be based on her record. In the event the payments are based on the father's record, rec-ord, the mother of the disabled child may also qualify for benefits ben-efits regardless of her age provided pro-vided she has the child in her care and is providing the 1 required re-quired services. |