Survivors benefits are paid to the families of workers who have died.

If one of the parents is deceased, the child may qualify for survivors benefits.

The younger a person is, the fewer credits he or she must have for family members to receive survivors benefits.

Use our benefit planners to calculate your retirement, disability and survivors benefits.

Click on your year of birth to determine your full retirement age for survivors benefits.

The number of credits you need to have family members be eligible for survivors benefits depends on your age when you die.

You probably know people who are receiving Social Security survivors benefits because they're a widow or widower.

You can find additional information about survivors benefits in our Survivors Planner.

Use our Survivors Planner to look at survivors benefits from two sides:

They also argue that because service members paid into the Survivors Benefits Plan, its benefits should not be reduced.

Monthly survivors benefits can be paid to certain family members, including the beneficiary's widow or widower, dependent children and dependent parents.

To learn about the survivors benefits that may be available to you, go to If You Are the Survivor.

For example, if you are applying for survivors benefits for the child, you will need to furnish proof of the parent's death.

If you are married and both of you are wage earners, you should consider survivors benefits from both perspectives.

In general, you cannot receive survivors benefits if you remarry before the age of 60 unless the latter marriage ends, whether by death, divorce, or annulment.

After his father's death Ryan received Social Security survivors benefits until his 18th birthday, which were saved up in order to pay for his college education.

Remember these facts: $(6$)Your Social Security taxes pay for potential disability and survivors benefits as well as for retirement benefits.

If you remarry, after you reach age 60 (age 50 if disabled), your remarriage will not affect your eligibility for survivors benefits.

Younger people need fewer credits to be eligible for disability benefits or for family members to be eligible for survivors benefits when the worker dies.

Major benefits include Veterans compensation, Veterans pension, survivors benefits, rehabilitation and employment assistance, education assistance, home loan guaranties, and life insurance coverage.

Though Ms. Lutnick dreamed of becoming a performer, perhaps a comedian, she gave that up for law school after her parents' deaths to remain eligible for Social Security survivors benefits.

Because of features like survivors benefits, Social Security is one of the largest antipoverty programs for children, and disability benefits also help younger workers and their families and are particularly important to minority communities.

The Social Security Administration has used state inheritance laws as the deciding factor if a person was a "child" under the Social Security Act and therefore eligible for survivors benefits since the 1940s.

If you do not want to log-in or you also want a survivors or disability benefit estimate, we have other benefit calculators that can estimate your future retirement, disability and survivors benefits.

At that time, the child's benefits continue, but your spouse's benefits stops unless you are old enough to receive retirement benefits (age 62 or older) or survivors benefits as a widow or widower (age 60).