| Parents of children with disabilities have enough to | | | | disability is on the list. Although it does not guarantee |
| worry about in taking care of their kids without having | | | | that your son or daughter will receive SSA benefits, it |
| to worry about how they will pay for the child's | | | | can go a long way in helping you prove your case. |
| medical help. Thankfully, if you can prove that your | | | | Because the parents are responsible for paying for a |
| child or young adult has a truly limiting long-term | | | | child, the SSA will look at the parents' income and |
| disability, the Social Security Administration may | | | | resources in order to determine the funds that are |
| determine that your child, up to age 22, is eligible to | | | | available to help the child. If the need is present, the |
| receive benefits from the government. | | | | SSA will give your child Supplemental Security Income. |
| The Social Security Administration, or SSA, has fairly | | | | For young adults who are between the ages of 18 |
| straightforward rules when it comes to determining | | | | and 22, the SSA may decide to provide benefits to |
| disability requirements for children. First, the health issue | | | | the adult child from the parent's Social Security. This is |
| can be mental or physical, and you must prove that it | | | | because most 18- to 22-year-olds have not yet had |
| severely limits your son or daughter from participating | | | | the chance to work and save money for dealing with |
| in the normal activities for a child that age. Next, the | | | | medical issues. In these cases, you must prove that |
| problem must have lasted at least a year, or it must | | | | the injury happened before age 22, and the same |
| be expected to last at least that long. Also, your child | | | | adult definition of disability applies. Additionally, you have |
| can be eligible if the disability is supposed to end in | | | | to show that the young adult has not yet made a |
| death. | | | | substantial amount of income. This changes year to |
| For both adults and children with disabilities, there is a | | | | year, but the definition for a substantial amount of |
| list of disabling conditions that the SSA looks at in | | | | income for 2010 is $1,000 per month. |
| determining level of disability. The list comes in two | | | | Proving that you or your child has a disability can be a |
| parts, one for adults and one for children. Because the | | | | complicated process that lasts for months. If you need |
| symptoms and levels of disability are different for | | | | help in proving disability to the SSA, check out the |
| adults and children, it is important to double-check the | | | | long-term disability lawyers from the Charles D. |
| children's category in order to see if your child's | | | | Hankey Law Office, P.C., today. |