How much is child disability allowance

Determining Social Security Disability Benefits for Children

In theory, Social Security Disability (SSD) is a straightforward program. SSD simply provides financial aid to those who cannot fully support themselves and their families due to an illness or debilitating ailment. In practice, however, applying for disability is rarely simple, especially when you’re applying on behalf of your child.

If the Social Security Administration (SSA) disability board agrees that your child’s ailment satisfies the requirements for approval, it will then calculate the amount of aid to award. This calculation can be extremely confusing if you’re not familiar with Social Security laws and accounting.

However, the easiest way to understand the value is to understand the variables. When determining a child’s benefit allowance, the board uses a combination of the child’s wages (earned and unearned) and the caregivers’ combined income.

Child Benefit Standard Calculations

To calculate standard SSD benefits for a child, the SSA combines the gross monthly incomes (earned and unearned) of the household's caregivers. Once combined, $367 is deducted per non-disabled child living in the same household (two non-disabled children means a deduction of $734). An additional $85 is then deducted, and the total is divided in half.

The federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit rate is $733 if the child lives with only one caregiver or $1,100 if the child lives with two caregivers. This benefit rate is subtracted from the new total. The resulting number is the caregivers’ deemed income, or the total monthly countable income of the disabled child.

If the child has no other income of his own, another $20 will be deducted from the calculated countable income. The final amount will then be subtracted from the current maximum monthly SSI cap. This cap can change each year based on annual cost of living adjustments. Florida’s 2016 cap is set at $733.

The resulting balance is the amount the child will receive each month from the SSA, if approved.

Child Benefits With Child Support Calculations

If the child's caregiver receives child support, the SSA treats it as unearned income and will include a two-thirds of it in the child’s countable income. Also, only child support that is actually received will be counted; if the non-custodial parent fails to pay support, it doesn't have an effect on the child’s SSI benefit.

Child Benefits Received From Disabled Parents' Calculations

Benefits awarded to children based on a parent’s disability are much easier to calculate. The child receives an allowance that is equal to 50 percent of the parent’s benefit. When the disabled parent has multiple children, the same 50 percent allowance will be divided equally among the children. For example, if a parent of one child receives $1,500, the child would receive $750. If a parent of three children receives $1,500, the children would each receive $250, which is the 50 percent dependent allowance divided by three.

For more information on applying for SSD or SSI on behalf of your child, or to verify that the severity of the condition warrants disability, contact us using the information on this page. For more insights into how to navigate the Social Security labyrinth, you can also visit our educational article gallery. We want to make sure that you have the tools and guidance you need to ensure financial support for your child's future.

Apply For A Child (Under Age 18) | Disability Benefits

SSI provides monthly cash payments to help meet the basic needs of children who have a physical or mental disability or who are blind. If you care for a child or teenager with a disability, and have limited income and savings or other resources, your child may be eligible for SSI.

SSI Eligibility for Children

Children under age 18 can get SSI if they meet Social Security's definition of disability for children and there are limited income and resources in the household. Social Security defines a disability as:

The child must have a physical or mental condition(s) that very seriously limits his or her activities; and
The condition(s) must have lasted, or be expected to last, at least 1 year or result in death.

How to Apply

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Other Ways to Apply

Apply By Phone

Call us to make an appointment to file an application at 1-800-772-1213. If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you can call us at TTY 1-800-325-0778.

Begin the Application Online

Applying for SSI requires 2 steps. You will need to complete the online Child Disability Report AND, with the help of a Social Security representative, complete an Application for SSI.

Step 1

TIP: Before completing the Child Disability Report, use our Child Disability Starter Kit to get answers to commonly asked questions about applying for SSI. The kit also includes a worksheet that will help you gather the information you need.

Fill out the online Child Disability Report

The report usually takes about an hour to complete and collects information about the child's disabling condition and how it affects their ability to function.

We will ask you to sign a form that gives the child's doctor(s) permission to give us information about their disability. We need this information so that we can make a decision on the child's claim. In some cases, if the child is over age 12, he or she must sign his or her own medical release.

Start the Child Disability Report

If you previously started a Child Disability Report for this child but did not finish it, you can use your re-entry number to return to your online Child Disability Report.

Step 2

After you submit a report, we will call you within 3-5 business days. Together, we will:

Review the completed Child Disability Report.
Discuss whether the income and resources of the household are within the allowed limits.
Start the SSI application process.

Assignment of state social disability benefits

You are not authorized. To receive the service, log in or register.

How to get the service online

Log in to the portal and click on the "Order the service online" button.
Fill out the application and sign it with an EDS (electronic digital signature). In the application, indicate the personal account number (IBAN) opened with Kazpost JSC or the Second Tier Bank (Halyk Bank JSC).
In your personal account (in the "History of services received" section), read the notification about the processing of your application, which will be received within the specified time.

How to get a service in the State body or NJSC State Corporation "Government for Citizens"  (required documents): Government for Citizens” fill out an application in the form in accordance with Appendix 1.

To the Territorial Subdivision of the Labor and Social Protection Committee, fill out an application in the form in accordance with Appendix 3.

Identity document (passport of a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan, identity card of a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan, certificate of a stateless person, residence permit of a foreigner, candas certificate before obtaining citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan) (required for identification).

Certificate of disability in the form approved by the order of the Minister of Health and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 30, 2015 No.

44 "On approval of the Rules for conducting medical and social examination" (registered in the Register of State Registration of Normative Legal Acts under No. 10589).

If necessary, one of the following documents is submitted:

Decision of the Interdepartmental Expert Council to establish a causal relationship of diseases, disability of persons exposed to radiation.
Decision of the Central Military Medical Commission.
Certificate of illness issued by the hospital, or the conclusion of the military medical commission.
Birth certificate of a disabled child under the age of sixteen (an extract from the birth certificate or a certificate of civil status registration issued by the civil registry office).
Marriage certificate (certificate of registration of acts of civil status) or certificate of divorce or an extract from the marriage record (in case of changing the name of the parent (guardian).

In case of establishment of guardianship (guardianship), a document confirming the establishment of guardianship (guardianship) is submitted.

When submitting documents drawn up in a foreign language, the notary certifies the accuracy of the translation of the document into Kazakh or Russian in accordance with subparagraph 9) paragraph 1 of Article 34, Article 80 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Notaries".

In a state corporation Reception is carried out in the order of "electronic queue", at the place of registration of the service recipient.

List of additional payments to pension

Social supplement up to the subsistence minimum

If the pension of a non-working pensioner is below the subsistence minimum, then it will be increased by additional payments. The federal cost of living is established every year by the budget law, this year for pensioners it is 10,022 rubles. Each region also sets its own living wage, it can be higher or lower than the federal one.

If the federal PM is higher than the regional one, then the pensioner will receive a federal surcharge, and if the PM in the region is higher, the regional one. You can get a surcharge upon application.

Monthly cash payment

This payment is due to veterans, disabled people, Chernobyl victims and other persons affected by radiation, former minor prisoners of fascism, Heroes of Russia and the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labor. It is assigned automatically.

In addition to it, they are provided with monthly compensation for a set of social services (drugs, sanatorium treatment, travel to and from the sanatorium, train trips). A pensioner can refuse a set of social services and take the cash equivalent.

Dependent's pension supplement

A pensioner can count on state support if he/she supports disabled persons, for example, minor children, full-time students, elderly relatives (parents, spouses, grandparents), disabled persons.

The supplement can be received for a maximum of three disabled family members, the total amount of the supplement in 2021 is 6044.48 rubles. One third of the fixed payment to the old-age insurance pension is paid for one family member.

"Rural" allowances

An increased pension is paid to citizens who have worked in rural areas for 30 years. The supplement to the pension is 25% of the fixed payment as part of the insurance pension, in 2021 its amount is 6044.48 rubles.

Starting January 1, 2022, "rural" supplements to pensions will be paid regardless of the pensioner's place of residence. At present, when a pensioner moves from a rural area to a city, the allowance is removed.

Pension recalculation after 80 years

Pensioners who have reached the age of 80 are entitled to an increased fixed payment to the old-age insurance pension, it increases by 100%.

A pensioner does not need to submit any applications to the FIU. The increase in the month of execution of 80 years is assigned automatically from the date of birth, and is paid from the next month.

Supplement to the pension for the "northern" experience

Citizens who worked in the regions of the Far North and areas equivalent to them, regardless of the place of current residence, can receive an increased pension.