I have a question just out of curiosity. My father passed away in the early 80s. I was only 11. I was suppose to receive ss benefits from him from 11-18 years of age. I know for a fact that the checks were at least 600-700 a month. At the time I lived with my sister. My mother only sent an average of 300 a month. So over all I would have supposed to receive 49,000.00 over 7 years. I only actually got 18-20,000.00 of that. Is this legal for a parent to keep their childs SS payments that were suppose to be for their care? Did she have a right to use it for her own purposes? This seems like it is stealing to me. I just wanted to know if she had that right, esp. if I was only living with her for 2 years out of the 7.
thanks for any help...oh and by the way, they were divorced at the time he died.
Lamb

