alt.social-security-disability

On Feb 18, 8:34=C2=A0pm, Relayer wrote:
> On Feb 18, 7:49=EF=BF=BDpm, "DrFeelgoodWA" wrot=
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> > On Feb 18, 7:00?pm, faye wrote:
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> > > Hi, I found out last Nov. of 2007 my ex-husband has been on SS
> > > disability. ?I am in custody of our ?dependent daughter since our
> > > seperation since Aug., 2004. She was a Jr in high school . He has
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> > > receiving app $
> > > since Nov. of 2005. ?Now I am appealing to get the $ a month
> > > that was to come to us from Nov. 2005 until high school graduation
> > > which was June 2007. Can anyone advice me.??? ?It has been 3 mths.
> > > Thank you
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> > If you have legal custody via a court order, and he actually applied
> > for her also (family benefit), simply go to the nearest SSA office,
> > present them with the CO and ask to be made "Representative Payee".
> > They are very cooperative in this matter and it will be taken care of.
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> > She has already graduated . and is no longer entitled to benefits.
> > If he was claiming the daughter he could be charged with fraud unless
> > he used all of her money for her needs. There is just not enough
> > information presented to make heads or tails of this situation as far
> > as I'm concerned. =EF=BF=BDThe somewhere near $ could have been a=
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> > share and he never claimed the daughter or it could have been the
> > combined benefit. A visit to her local SS office could yield much
> > better facts. Was it a sole custody situation or did he have
> > visitation or even shared custody?
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> Opps..jeez..I need to read better...duh...
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> You are 100% correct.
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> As far as custody, it depends on the state and every state is
> different. In Illinois, it would go to whoever has physcial custody,
> as there is no such thing as shared custody (a lot of other states are
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To add, she is still going to need to present them with a copy of the
court order or they won't discuss a thing with her. I wonder what SSA
would do if he had been collecting it and not turning it over. They
won't make a double payment. She would probably need to get a
judgement from the courts and then garnish it from his SSDI (which we
all know can be done)