📋 What Grandparents Should Know About Social Security and Kids (AARP Article)

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What Grandparents Need to Know About Social Security for Kids.

If you’re raising grandchildren, they may be eligible for benefits.

By Martha C. White, AARP. Published September 27, 2024.

Since Doreen Tarrant’s daughter died of liver cancer in 2015, she has been raising her three grandchildren, a 16-year-old boy and 12-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. Family finances are chronically tight, and making ends meet each month is a struggle with three kids.

“They have growth spurts,” says Tarrant, of Virginia Beach, Virginia. “School clothes are expensive.” Not to mention the climbing costs of everything from laundry detergent to period supplies for her granddaughter. “It’s getting harder and harder,” she says.

https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/info-2024/grandchildren-eligible-for-benefits.html