Social security benefits and step parent adoptions?
MAC asked:
My son is receiving social security benefits because his father was killed five years ago on a motorcycle. I have remarried and my husband would like to adopt my son. Will this affect my son’s social security benefits?
Clinton
My son is receiving social security benefits because his father was killed five years ago on a motorcycle. I have remarried and my husband would like to adopt my son. Will this affect my son’s social security benefits?
Clinton
Laura
Call your local social security office and ask or go to
Christina
Adoption after entitlement does not terminate benefits.
This information is from Social Security’s Program Operation Manual found at
RS 00203.035 Child’s Benefits – Termination of Entitlement
C. POLICY – ADOPTION AS NON-TERMINATION EVENT
The adoption of a child already entitled to benefits does not terminate the child’s benefits.
If a child was adopted by a grandparent, and was then receiving SS benefits based on the age of the now “parent”, and then the grandparents parental rights were terminated, is the child still to receive SS benefits even though she is no longer legally related to anyone that is eligible for benefits?