Can I get SSI for A.D.D?

What happens if my husband adds our kids to his SSI?

• My husband has had SSI for 10 years due to kidney failure, SSi wants to add the kids to his benefites. So I need to know how this works. We have 4 kids, Our twin boys who were born with Osteogenesis imperfecta, Autuism, 1 boy was born with a heart that 1 valve pumps backwards. So those 2 get SSi. our 2 kids do not get SSi. So if SSI adds the kids to his benefits does that mean they will remove me as a payee for the 2 boys and give my husband all their money? Also if not and he gets just 2 of the kids on his benefits will they lower or raise his payments? We're unsure how this process works....

• Answer:

  The fact that the children are all entitled to benefits has nothing to do with who is their payee. Social Security pays the parent with custody the benefits (unless the non-custodial parent - usually the father - lies and tells social security the kids live with him when they don't). Whoever is the payee for the two boys already receiving SSI benefits should be the person to also receive the social security benefits. Your husband's benefit remains the same whether he has no entitled children or ten entitled children. Children's benefits are paid in addition to the wage earner's benefit. When you file for benefits for the two other children the social security benefits to the two who are currently entitled to social security (I"m not talking about the SSI benefit - I'm talking about the social security benefits) will go down which means that the SSI benefits will go up. The reason is because other income reduces SSI benefits so if the benefits go down to the two kids getting SSI because two more kids will be added to their father's record that means that their SSI benefit will go up. Trust me. Income to the family as a whole will increase by $40 a month if the two other kids become entitled to monthly benefits on their father's record. SSI stands for Supplemental Security Income. It is the federal welfare benefit which means that it is based upon financial need. In order to get SSI a person must be blind, disabled or over age 64. It does NOT mean social security. Social Security is the name of the agency which pays the SSI benefit. SSI is not social security. All other benefits are called social security benefits. Your husband is entitled to social security benefits - not SSI. His children will now be entitled to social security children's benefits and two of those children will receive SSI in addition to the social security benefits because they are disabled. If you pay attention to the letters you receive you will see that at the top they will indicate whether the letter is about SSI or Social Security. Also SSI is paid on the 1st of the month. Social Security benefits are paid on either the 3rd of the month or on a Wednesday.