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Show Social Security benefits young people more than scholarships change in the law providing for the continued payment of social security child's benefits past the age of 18. Until that change, a young beneficiary's payments stopped when he became be-came 18 unless he was totally disabled. There is nothing in the law that prevents the student stu-dent from receiving his social security benefits while he is still receiving assistance from a scholarship fund. Benefits may be paid during vacation periods. If a student works during the summer months or part time during the school year and earns $1,680 or less for the year he can still collect all of his social security benefits. If his earnings earn-ings go above $1,680 he gives up some of or all of his benefits, bene-fits, depending upon the a- mount of his total earning. A change in the dependency requirements of the children of women workers made about 175,000 young persons eligible for payments. Students or prospective pros-pective students in tho 18-22 group whose mothers died after working under social security, or whose mothers are retired or disabled should get in touch with your representative. Social Security benefits being be-ing paid to young people 18 to 22 who are still in school amount to more than the scholarships schol-arships at all colleges and universities uni-versities in the United States. In the 1968-69 school year, the program will pay about $497 million to approximately 466,000 students entitled to the payments on the earnings record re-cord of a disabled, retired, or deceased parent. This will be and average of more than $1,000 to each eligible ttudent. The school year that begins this fall will mark the fourth year of payments under a 1965 |