I have MS (I'm in a chair, only one hand works, all that MS stuff( SSDI has been sending money every month for my kids, they turn 18 today but are still in High School so they'll be paid until graduation. But SSDI sent a letter, saying it is best they send kids checks direct and if I've saved any $$ in saved or investments (The College fund for them- the 529?) I should send monies to them!!! Money I have left over from any checks they sent me?? Left over? Think they need to send me money. Are they just idiots??

I don't think they get out of the office much

I know what you mean, done this twice. Every year when you get that letter, you know the one that ask you if you had anything left over? Did you say $0? I always said $0 because it took all of their $140 each to support them with school, etc. I never said we saved anything because we didn't. So, if you said $0 on those yearly forms your good to go. I also never had an account in their name.

Now, once they were 18 they got the check until they graduated and they were the the only ones who could cash it. What ****** me off is we were still supporting them but in a weird way we felt like it wasn't our money anymore to use. So, we lost that mini check and of course the boys didn't offer it up. LOL

Sandy, Like my kids would offer me a cent. Yet, they want lap-tops, yearbooks, college, gas money,allowance, pay for their cell phones, etc. More we give them, the more they want. I should of just drank the money away instead of complicating things and saving. You know, no good deed goes unpunished!! They must never get out B2Y!!!!

I quote directly from letter I got:

While you were Kicker's kid payee, you may have saved some for her/him. If you have, please return it to us.The money you need to return includes


-Any money you have left over from checks we sent you.






WHAT!!! What they sent didn't cover much. If I were a bad parent I'd have made my kids live and suffer on that little bit. But no, I gave them more.

*&%@#$. Someone taught me this Rat B@$#@%ds

Just say you didn't save anything. LOL

We were lucky in that the teen was under 18 when she graduated from HS and was still under 18 when she left for college. We set up a bank account for her and deposited her checks into it until they stopped, but she knew that once they stopped, so did any money outside of what we wanted to give her.

She got a job and worked and saved money through half of HS and all of college.

If she had turned 18 and was still in high school, we would have had her sign the check and then made it disappear into the family budget. She knew where it was spent already, she knew what the costs of food, power, car insurance and repairs, gasoline, and extras cost before she got to the point of having to do it ALL herself. I sent her shopping for food all the time and she had to live with what she bought for all of us and our complaints when she didn't shop well. She was able to admit it wasn't easy and that I knew what I was doing when it came to spending and paying bills.

We always reported $0 saved.

How often do these letters come. I won in June and my daughter was 18 at the time she got around 7,000 backpay. She gave most of it to us as she was going to college this past fall and knew we needed that money for her books .etc. I now have a 16 year old daughter and a 10 year old that get $500 each per month. My attorney(ALLSUP) told me and my wife that we can take this money out and spend it as we seen fit for bills, and everything else that came up. Do we have to keep track of every penny?

NOW I know. But I have only one per child yearly "What did you do with money" reports (2x) to complete this last time. This time I know to put zero for monies saved. Don't tell SSDI (the're not reading this are they?) but money saved in a 529 (college coming like a freight train), between life, school, food, Christmas, birthdays, gas, car repairs, etc., think they need to send me some money. Now I know to put zero every report (were yearly or so for me, I didn't pay close attention. I should have.) I will be glad to stop having to account to them I didn't drink the money away. What I think they think makes me feel unclean.