Was you child born weighing below 2 pounds, 10 ounces or with a disability?

Was you child born weighing below 2 pounds, 10 ounces or with a disability?

 

You may be entitled to immediate SSI payments to your child. It can take three to five months for the state agency to decide if your child is disabled. However, for some medical conditions, SSI will make payments right away and for up to six months while the state agency decides if your child is disabled.

Following are some conditions that may qualify:

• HIV infection;

• Total blindness;

• Total deafness;

• Cerebral palsy;

• Down syndrome;

• Muscular dystrophy;

• Severe intellectual disorder

(child age 7 or older); and

• Birth weight below 2 pounds, 10 ounces.

If your child has one of the qualifying conditions, he or she will get SSI payments right away. However, the state agency may finally decide that your child’s disability is not severe enough for SSI. If that happens, you will not have to pay back the SSI payments that your child got.

 

Click here for more information: http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10026.pdf

Learn more about how to apply here: http://www.pawic.com/howtoapply.html

Apply for benefits here: https://www.compass.state.pa.us/compass.web/CMHOM.aspx

 

Contact Kate Cleary with any further questions at 610-945-6050 or KCleary@marchofdimes.com