If you can’t or don’t want to use your my Social Security account, or you need a letter for someone other than yourself, you can call us at 1-800-772-1213 (TTY 1-800-325-0778), Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Can someone apply for Social Security on behalf?
You can choose an attorney or other qualified individual to represent you. You can also have more than one representative. However, you can’t have someone who, by law, can’t act as a representative, or someone the Social Security Administration has suspended or disqualified from representing others.
Who is responsible for Child Social Security benefits?
Whenever a minor child receives a benefit, the Social Security Administration pays the benefit to a representative payee. This individual is often a parent and is responsible for managing the benefits on behalf of the child. Before a recent law change, all representative payees were required to file an annual report.
How much of a parent’s social security can a child get?
Within a family, a child can receive up to half of the parent’s full retirement or disability benefit. If a child receives survivors benefits, they can get up to 75 percent of the deceased parent’s basic Social Security benefit. There is a limit, however, to the amount of money that we can pay to a family.
Is the minor child’s social security benefit treated as my?
If the SSA appoints a minor child’s parent as his representative payee, who is responsible for receiving and managing the child’s SSA benefits, the parent does not include the minor’s SSA benefits on his personal federal tax return.
How does a payee get their child’s SSA?
Unlike with other types of payees, the SSA allows a parent serving as his child’s representative payee to receive his child’s SSA monthly benefit in a checking or savings account owned by the payee. The SSA requires the parent to account for how he spends his child’s benefit and examines his records at least once per year.
