<p>Back in the dark ages, I actually received SS benefits based on my father being retired.
The payments lasted until the month I graduated from college.</p>
<p>I know that this has changed recently so that benefits end at age 18.
I don’t think my family was ‘abusing’ the system…those were the rules back then and we weren’t going to decline the benefit that I qualified for. It was a major stretch for me to become the first college graduate in our family and those $$$ really helped.</p>