Achilles, you need to apply to be payee for your children before benefits can be paid. Their benefits are in a separate check. SSA does not assume that all your children live with you. If you have children who live with another parent, that parent would be the proper payee. Call 1-800-772-1213 and make an appointment.

Also, if you are young and just barely insured for benefits (minimum number of quarters) the disability family maximum computation may reduce the children's benefits to a very small amount, even to zero.