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Originally Posted by DiMarie
We filed, were denied at first, waited almost 20 months for a hearing.
A fully favorable decision was received. However, as retired older parents I was reading a booklet on benefits and from what I read if our disabled child marry's, she is 20, she will lose her benefits.
She has been disabled from childhood, is receiving based on her fathers earnings. I am concerned now...does this means she has to be alone for her life, we are in our 60's and worried that all this was for nothing if she marrys and the man can not or will not take care of her.
Any other parents out there? This is not SSI, it is off her fathers earnings.
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Her CDB (formerly called DAC) would end unless, like a previous poster said, she is in a protected marriage to another CDB, but not to an SSI recipient.
There is an assumption in SSA law that marriage conveys a responsibility for the other person. That is why spouses can get benefits from the deceased or retired husband/wife. So when she marries, the responsibility for her shifts from her parents to her spouse. And she is no longer a dependent of her parents. She then has the potential to be eligible on the spouse's record if she meets age (62) requirements.
She will have to decide if keeping the CDB benefits is more or less important than marriage. It is a choice.