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Show Student benefits to be curtailed Social Security benefits to students 18-22 attending at-tending colleges and other post-secondary schools will., be sharply curtaiJed ; under , a., recently enacted law, Warren Spencer, Social Security Representative in Cedar City, said recently. First, children who become eligible for Social Security benefits after July 1982 will not receive post-secondary school students benefits. Second, post-secondary school students who first become eligible for benefits in the period September 1981 - July 1982 will only receive benefits through July 1982 . (one month for some students). Finally, students currently receiving benefits (or child beneficiaries who begin their college or post-secondary post-secondary ' education before May 1982) will receive limited students benefits. More information about student benefits and other changes in the law can be obtained at the Cedar City, Social Security Office located at P.O. .Box 769. The telephone number is 586-6537. 586-6537. Benefit rates for students who are eligible for continuing benefits will be frozen at the July 1981 level, Spencer said. Furthermore, these rates will be reduced 25 percent each year starting with August 1982. Students will no longer receive benefits for the summer months of May, June, July and August regardless of whether they attend school in any of those months. Beginning August 1982, : elementary and secondary secon-dary school students can receive benefits as under the old law, except that no benefits can be paid for months in school terms after a child? reaches 19. Benefits to-.'', children who are , not students will end at 18 as before. .' |