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Social Security Mother's or Father's Insurance Benefits Benefits
Program Description
These are benefits paid to the surviving spouse or surviving divorced spouse of an insured worker.To qualify for this benefit program, you must meet all of the following requirements:
- Be unmarried
- Meet the marriage duration requirement
- Have in your care the deceased's child who is under age 16 or disabled and entitled to child's insurance benefits (for a surviving divorced mother or father the child must be their natural or legally adopted child)
- Not be entitled to a higher Social Security retirement benefit on your own record
- Not be entitled to a widow's or widower's benefit
- Be finally divorced from the deceased worker.