Should I still be getting Social Security for my deceased father? Lawyers or people with similar experiance.?

I am 22 years old and a full time college student. I have been in college since the age of 16, 3 months after my father passed away. When I turned 18 I stopped receiving social security payments, and today my tax accountant told me that I should have been collecting SS payments and should still receive them until I am completely done with school. Is there any truth to this? He told me to contact a lawyer. Is there any one out there in the same situation or who is collecting SS benefits for a deceased parent?

The accountant is incorrect. You should have received the payments until the month when you turned 18 since you had already finished high school. If you had still been in high school, it is possible that payments could have continued until you graduated from HS.

http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10085.html#benef...
Benefits can continue at age 18

Benefits stop when your child reaches age 18 unless your child is a student or disabled.
If your child is a student

Three months before your child's 18th birthday, we will send you a notice that benefits will end at age 18 unless your child is a full-time student at a secondary ( or elementary) school. If your child is younger than 19 and still attending a secondary or elementary school, he or she must notify us by completing a statement of attendance that has been certified by a school official. The benefits then will usually continue until he or she graduates, or until two months after reaching age 19, whichever comes first.

Contact the social security administration. They will give you the proper information.

No, you are breaking the law. Contact SSI immediatley so you can clear this up.

She's not breaking the law if she's not collecting any money.

It is possible that your tax accountant is correct - contact the social security office near you to find out the facts.

I believe so, if you are still going to school, but you need to check it out

No experience--but I am fairly confident you should qualify for 4 years of benefits as long as you are full time. But knowing the government, you will have to fill out tons of forms and if you are persistant, you miget the money in time to send your own childten to college.

I'll tell you something. I beleive youe acct is dead wrong. When your Father passed on his SS payments were stopped. No matter that you are in school. You do need to see a lawyer before there is trouble. I do know that when my Dad passed away, my Mother and younger brother still received the SS check, but, when my Mother passed away and my brother was 18 yr old and still in college, his payments stopped. I think your Acct is wrong.This only applies if you are in high school. NOT COLLEGE.

Social security stops the day you die; except that a widow/widower can get a survivor benefit. Children are not entitled to any benefit after their parents die.

NO, the payments stop at 18!!! My first cousin's are experiences...thier father was killed when they were 15, they received checks for the last 3 years...when they make 18 the checks stop. I don't know why an accountant would tell u something like that.