Social Security Survivor Benefits

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Did you know in order to qualify for Social Security survivor benefits that the worker must have worked FULL-TIME for 6 quarters?

I didn't until I tried to get it for a small child in my care. The mother was killed at age 19 and had not worked long enough. She did have a job, but the job was only part-time.

I always thought that Social Security was set up to help orphaned children, but apparently it really isn't. And it's not true that the child can draw from their grandparents SS, because we have tried that too. They tell me that I would have to adopt, which in that case the child is no longer a grandchild, but your child. I'm so sick of arguing with them on the phone about it.