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Originally Posted by Babyboomer15
I know someone(payee) who received backpay for their child's SSI and they used it as a down payment on a house. Is that legal? I know under SSA guidelines you are suppose to have housing supplied but this seems beyond the call of duty because this seems like a family matter.
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It's inappropriate unless they put the child's name on the title. It's hard to enforce payee rules for parents of SSI children however.
But with installments and dedicated accounts, the parents shouldn't have gotten more than $1800 which is not much of a down payment.