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Supplemental Security Income (SSI), What Happens to Your SSI When You Turn 18?

Date Posted: Tuesday, March 01, 2016
By: L. Long

Abstract

Answers the following questions about Social Security's Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for a child who has turned 18: Can I keep my SSI? Can I work? Are there ways to earn money without reducing my SSI check? What if Social Security turns me down when I turn 18?

Originally published as: Research You Can Use, Issue 3, 2011. Also issued as Transitions RTC Tip Sheet 3, Apr. 2011.

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Subject Area

Employment, Service Systems, Transition Age Youth

Keywords

Social Security, disabled persons, Spanish

Repository Citation

Long L. Supplemental Security Income (SSI): What Happens to Your SSI When You Turn 18? [English and Spanish versions]. Psychiatry Information in Brief 2012;8(12):1058. https://doi.org/10.7191/pib.1058. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/pib/vol8/iss12/1