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Show Social Security Will Help Disabled Persons 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 that some provision had to be made in the social security program for their future fu-ture support. So in 1957, an amendment was passed enabling enabl-ing benefits to be paid to severely sev-erely disabled 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 soc-ial scurity before her retirement, retire-ment, disablity 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 bene-fits regardless of her age provided pro-vided she has the child in her care and is providing the required re-quired services. If a child with a severely disabling condition is presently receiving social security benefits bene-fits which will stop when he reaches 18, an application for childhood disability benefits should be filed at least 6 months before the 18th birthday. This will allow enough time to process pro-cess the claim without an interruption in-terruption in receipt of the monthly check. Additional information about this provision of the Social se-surity se-surity law may be obtained from the Provo office, 170 North 200 West, They are open from 8:30 until 4: :30 p.m. weekdays, week-days, and Monday is extended to 6:30 p.m. |