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As some of you may know my father passed away 2 weeks ago 
Looking at the social security statement of my father that he got after the year of 2008, it stated that in the case of his death, his spouse may receive $1750/mo, and children may receive up to $1750/mo.
I have a half brother who is 16.
One of my step mothers friends thought she had heard that as long as the child goes to college, he can get the money until he is 25 years old.
So my stepmom kind of thought she would be getting about $3500/mo which would help GREATLY towards the mortgage, since my father had his own doctors practice, and she worked for him. So not only is his income not coming, but she is out of a job currently.
And they had pretty much no savings with the way medicine has been goin the past few years, and a bunch of other factors. He only had a slight insurance policy as well.
Now onto my question...
My step mom talked to someone at social security on the phone and basically said the $1750 for the spouse she will not get, because it is only if you are over 60 years old AND making less than $15k/yr.
They also said that the child only gets it until he's 16 years old, so they won't be getting that either.
She did say the person on the phone sounded like they didnt know anything and just wanted her off the phone. She met with a medical attorney today to discuss selling my fathers practice, and asked her questions about the SS as well. The attorney said that she will not get the $1750 for the spouse because she is under 60, and that my half brother may get it for about a year until he turns 18 (turns 17 in October).
She is meeting with someone from SS tomorrow.
I just wanted to know if there is ANYTHING at all you guys know she can try to do to get this money. It will be so fucked up in my eyes if all of my fathers hard work for his social security goes to the government and my step mom can't see a penny of it.
Any advice at all is appreciated, sorry for the long post.
Looking at the social security statement of my father that he got after the year of 2008, it stated that in the case of his death, his spouse may receive $1750/mo, and children may receive up to $1750/mo.
I have a half brother who is 16.
One of my step mothers friends thought she had heard that as long as the child goes to college, he can get the money until he is 25 years old.
So my stepmom kind of thought she would be getting about $3500/mo which would help GREATLY towards the mortgage, since my father had his own doctors practice, and she worked for him. So not only is his income not coming, but she is out of a job currently.
And they had pretty much no savings with the way medicine has been goin the past few years, and a bunch of other factors. He only had a slight insurance policy as well.
Now onto my question...
My step mom talked to someone at social security on the phone and basically said the $1750 for the spouse she will not get, because it is only if you are over 60 years old AND making less than $15k/yr.
They also said that the child only gets it until he's 16 years old, so they won't be getting that either.
She did say the person on the phone sounded like they didnt know anything and just wanted her off the phone. She met with a medical attorney today to discuss selling my fathers practice, and asked her questions about the SS as well. The attorney said that she will not get the $1750 for the spouse because she is under 60, and that my half brother may get it for about a year until he turns 18 (turns 17 in October).
She is meeting with someone from SS tomorrow.
I just wanted to know if there is ANYTHING at all you guys know she can try to do to get this money. It will be so fucked up in my eyes if all of my fathers hard work for his social security goes to the government and my step mom can't see a penny of it.
Any advice at all is appreciated, sorry for the long post.
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