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Show Women earn social security family benefits A woman who works earns Social Security protection not only for herself but also for her family. Even if she is single and has no dependents, the Social Security credits she earns while working count toward monthly benefits for the family she may have in the future. A woman has Social Security disability and survivors insurance protection while she is working. If she becomes be-comes disabled and can't work for a year or more, she can get disability checks provided pro-vided she has worked long enough under Social Security. Her disability payments pay-ments would start with the 6th full month of her disability - there's a 5-month waiting period -- and would continue as long as she is disabled. If she receives disability payments pay-ments for 24 months, she also will have Medicare protection. Her unmarried children chil-dren can get benefits, too, when she's disabled. dis-abled. Monthly checks are payable to children under 18, children who become disabled before 22 and remain disabled and children under 19 who are attending elementary ele-mentary or secondary school full time. This includes stepchildren step-children and legally adopted children. If he is 62 or older, a husband may qualify for payment when the wife is disabled. If under 62, he may qualify if he is caring for a child who is under 16 or disabled and entitled to benefits. Both the widower (or surviving divorced husband) hus-band) and the children may receive monthly survivor checks if a woman should die. There's also a lumpsum lump-sum death payment of ' $255 that may be payable to a widower or dependent children. |
