Can you collect social security benefits if your father dies and has not claimed paternity of you?

Someone told me that a father doesn't have to claim paternity for a child to collect social security if the father is dead. This became a big argument between us. Can someone help settle this one for me?

It's possible. I know someone whose husband died about a month before their child was born. She was able to get Survivor's benefits for the child.

You might need to have a paternity test done using DNA from one of your father's siblings or parents, or perhaps other children, to prove relationship. Contact the local Social Security office and ask them,

This is worth a phone call to the nearest SSA office.

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You can collect on his record if you can prove his paternity. If you have a birth certificate with his name listed as your father, then I believe that is enough to file under his record.

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