An excellent article in the Military e-Times explains:
“You probably know that a child can receive Social Security benefits on a parent’s record if the parent is receiving disability or retirement benefits or as the survivor of a parent who is deceased. But did you know that while most Social Security benefits for children end when a child reaches age 18, a child — if blind or disabled — may qualify for benefits as a “disabled adult child” well past that age?

Disabled adult children may include biological and adopted children, and sometimes even a stepchild, grandchild or step-grandchild. To qualify for disabled adult child benefits, the child must be unmarried, at least 18 years old and must have a disability that began before reaching age 22. As long as the adult child was disabled before age 22, continues to be disabled and did not work, the child may be eligible. See full story here:

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1. Internet:       www.regulations.gov.  Search for docket number SSA-2009-0081.
2. Fax:             410-966-2830
3. Mail:             Office of Regulations
Social Security Administration
137 Altmeyer Building
6401 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, Maryland  21235-6401
 
(If comments are mailed, note that they must be “received” no later than March 30, 2010.)

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During the debate on Social Security during FDR’s first term, FDR was buffeted by liberals who wanted a more generous, European-style dole system, and Republicans, who wanted no such program. Together, they threatened to derail what FDR considered a core component of the New Deal. The compromise — a self-financed program that vested at retirement, was deemed by many a compromise between the two factions. Yet today, Social Security is considered a right by all Americans, the fiery debate and incendiary rhetoric just so much dust-covered microfiche in the Congressional archives.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/yaki/detail?entry_id=59396#ixzz0jDUjtOjl

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In today’s New York Times, it is noted that Social Security’s original architects did not anticipate a major advance in the 20th century: women’s progress in market work, and how that progress would fill Social Security’s coffers.

Once they turn 62 years old, married people, widows and widowers are eligible for Social Security, regardless of whether they ever worked for pay during their lifetimes. When Social Security was in the planning stages, it was expected that most working-age couples would have only one person working (and thereby paying the payroll tax) — typically the husband. Yet when these couples retired, Social Security would pay benefit checks to both of them as long as they lived. See full article with cite to book on this topic:

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