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Show Social Security Favors Disabled Children Persons who became totally disabled before age 18 and who are dependent upon a parent who is entitled to old-age and survivors insurance benefits, should contact their local social security office in 1957, according to Kesler T. Powell manager of the social secruiity district office of-fice In Provo. Under the 1956 amendments to the Social Security Act, many of these people are eligible for monthly social security benefits beginning as early as January 1957. Qualifications for these payments are that the person be totally disabled, have become disabled before reaching age 18. be unmarried, and be dependent on a parent or adopting parent who Is entitled to old-age Insurance In-surance benefits. If the parent or adopting parent died after 1939 and was insured for social security survivor benefits, payments pay-ments may now be made to the surviving disabled child. It is not necessary that the disabled child himself have a work record under the social security se-curity law. The mother of a disabled dis-abled son or daughter may qua. lify for a mother's month:- in. eflt even though she is not yet age 62. if she has the disabled individual in her care. Where a totally disabled child is still under age 18 but is receiving re-ceiving monthly payments because be-cause a parent was insured under un-der social security, the child's monthly payments will continue as long as he is totally disabled. Before the new amendments were passed, the child's benefits would have stopped when he reached age 18. Under the new amendments, the payments to this child may continue for the remainder of his life. For further Information regarding regard-ing this and other provisions of the Social Security Act, you may contact a representative of the social security office at the Utah State Employment Service, Ce-war Ce-war City, on May 7, between th-f hours of 9 a. m. and 3 p. in. |