A. P. D. G. Everett is a graduate student in biomedical engineering at the University of Vermont.
Social Security’s “disabled adult child” program has a simple rule: Someone who suffers a disability before age 22 can claim benefits on the basis of a parent’s earnings record, because they are not considered to have reached economic adulthood. But if the disability occurs after their 22nd birthday, they are on their own, even though young adults have not generally worked long enough to receive meaningful benefits.
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