“As with adults, most child applicants are denied SSI, and only those with medically documented impairment that results in “marked and severe functional limitations” qualify for benefits. Just 1.7 percent of U.S. children receive SSI—fewer than 1 in 4 U.S. children with disabilities. Contrary to misconceptions, doing poorly in school is not a basis for SSI eligibility. Poor performance in school may be an indicator of a learning disorder or other mental impairment, but on its own is not sufficient to qualify a child for SSI. Likewise, doing well in school doesn’t mean a child will lose benefits. Academic performance is just one evidentiary factor among many considered in evaluating a child’s eligibility for SSI.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-meltzer/social-security-disability-programs_b_3014961.html
Or were you just commenting generally and not neccesairly addressing my reply?
Huffington Post? Anything from there is liberal by nature or it wouldn't be there.
I’m only speaking directly about two children I know personally. My wife’s sister has two G/children who receive an S.S.I. check of $730 per month each and their only diagnosis is A.D.D., for which they are prescribed medication that makes them little zombie boys and affects their appetites. It’s hard to get them to eat when they are on their dope. Sad, all for money.
($730 or $630, I forget which)
When I went to school I was not particularly ‘bright’. We had some financial problems at home. My father had to quit school when he was only 10 to go to work during the depression and had to continue on that way so without a hs diploma he had to work in the workforce as some kind of blue collar worker, as it was he was intelligent and became a scheduler planner. In todays world I’m not sure this could even happen.
So we had all these problems with money, as there were 4 kids and my parents were struggling, but we did it, however my father yelled a lot, being so stressed I suppose. He was a good guy.
I suppose today they would pop me on drugs right away. I must have had a ‘learning disability’.
It happens I took an IQ test only a few years ago, mine is 135.