Supplemental Security Income (SSI), What Happens to Your SSI When You Turn 18?
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 01, 2016Abstract
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.
Also available in additional languages.
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
