<p>No, survivor’s benefits terminate when the student graduates from high school or turns 19–whichever happens first.</p>
<p>[Survivors</a> Benefits](<a href=“http://ssa.gov/pubs/10084.html]Survivors”>http://ssa.gov/pubs/10084.html)</p>
<p>Survivors used to be able to receive benefits so long as they were full time students up until age 24, but that changed years ago because too many people abused the system.</p>
<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>
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<p>It would not be a good idea at all. </p>
<p>You would be lying.</p>
<p>You also have no way of knowing if the FAFSA folks would pick your for verification. And you also have no way of knowing if your school could very well initiate a policy where the Fin Aid offices would require everyone to submit their tax forms and whatnot. </p>
<p>Furthermore. If you estimate something. You have to correct it and fully verify and validate it at some point. You have to do that with FAFSA as well as other things of a financial nature as well.</p>
<p>At least 30% of students get verified I believe.</p>