[APG Public List] Social Security benefits for children

[RB5522 at aol.com]

As someone who was widowed with young children I can give you some  
information about the process.  All relationships have to be proved with  original 
documents (not copies.) mailed or handed to Social Security  In my  case I 
had to show them  birth certificates for everyone  involved, my marriage 
certificate and my husbands death certificate.   The relationship of the 
beneficiary  to the decedent has to be  proven.  
 
As far as the records being available to others, remember  these are  
records and files about the children of the deceased ,including their birth  
certificates,  and are separate from the records of the parents, so I  doubt 
they would be available.  
 
Judi Scott
 






I appreciate all your answers and advice.??? Does anyone  have actual 
experience 
with the form required for receiving death benefits  for the children?
?
I imagine that the death benefit form would have been  submitted by the 
children's paternal aunt or paternal grandmother, with whom  they went to 
live.? 
Either of these would have had personal knowledge of the  marriage date, if 
asked 
to supply it on the form.
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Thank you for all  your help.
?
Warmest  Regards,
?
Donna




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