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    Arrow Benefits when Dad Dies and Baby is Three Years Old

    California - I've heard that when a parent dies, surviving children may be entitled to get some money from the SSA. Is this true?

    If there are benefits available but no one has claimed the money would it be possible for the dead father's grand child to request these benefits?

    Is there anyway to see if the mother collected these benefits back when the father died in 1969?

    I am the ex-wife of the child (now adult). My daughter is the surviving grand child of the deceased. My former mother in law insists that she never received any child support from my ex-husband's father and she never received any government assistance when she was divorced at age 19 with a three year old to raise. She thinks I am taking advantage of her son by having him pay guideline child support.

    I do have the father's date and county of birth and death as well as his social security number.

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    Default Re: Benefits when Dad Dies and Baby is Three Years Old

    Dependent benefits are for the dependents of the decedent, not the grandchildren of the decendant.

    And no, you may not inquire into the Social Security account of someone else. Whether or not she collected any money whatsoever isn't even any of your business.

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    Default Re: Benefits when Dad Dies and Baby is Three Years Old

    On one web site I looked at they give the mailing address where benefit checks were last sent - so I thought it might be public record as to who cashed those checks.

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    Default Re: Benefits when Dad Dies and Baby is Three Years Old

    This should answer your question regarding filing a claim on the record of a grandparent: http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/cfr20/404/404-0364.htm


    Your former mother-in-law views you as a scavenging opportunist. Going through your prior posts and seeing how you supplement your living expenses by suing people when the opportunity arises, I can see why she might feel that way. Perhaps you can follow her example and learn how to support yourself instead of relying on various other forms of "free money". She should be commended for not relying on government assistance, even though she was entitled to it at the time. The benefits your ex-mother-in-law didn't apply for way back in "1969" does not entitle you to cash-in now.

    CourtClerk's reply was 100% correct. I don't see the point in trying to find out "who-got-what----and when", to be any of your concern.

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