Social Security Benefits

Social security disability benefits

Social Security disability benefits are made available according to the criteria that an individual meets the definition held by the Social Security Administration of having a disability, but not that he or she evince financial need of assistance. In contrast, Supplemental Security Income, as another route for providing financial aid to people who are disabled, is based on financial need, in addition to the basic requirement that a recipient be somehow disabled.

Social security death benefits

The rules governing Social Security death benefits provide for the ability of family members of the former recipients of a Social Security-administered program of assistance, in whatever specific form might be the case, to continue to receive financial assistance. The specific coverage of Social Security death provisions to a case of this kind will be determined by the responsible agency, the U.S. Social Security Administration.