Child Qualifications For Social Security Disability Benefits

Your youngster could be eligible to get disability benefits under the Supplemental Security Income program.

If your child isn't married, isn't considered the head of a household, and is under 18 years of age (or if their under age 22 and is a student attending school regularly), they could satisfy the requirements.
To qualify for Supplemental Security Income benefits, your child must either be handicapped or blind.

•   Benefits can start as soon as the date of birth: there is no minimum age requirement
•   They can receive benefits until they reach the age of 18
•   Upon turning 18, disabilities will have to be evaluated on the definition of disability for adults
•   A visual impairment may qualify for SSI blindness benefits, based upon if the impairment fulfills the definition of statutory blindness: central visual acuity of 20/200 or worse in the better eye with the aid of a corrective lens, or if you've got a visual field limitation in your better eye, such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no higher than twenty degrees