{"id":292305,"date":"2026-10-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/?p=292305"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:00:00","slug":"ssi-children-2027-1029-parent-deeming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/ssi-children-2027-1029-parent-deeming\/","title":{"rendered":"Children with disabilities can receive up to $1,029 a month from SSI in 2027: the requirements their parents must meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Children with disabilities<\/strong> can also receive <strong>Supplemental Security Income (SSI)<\/strong>, and in 2027 the maximum federal amount will be <strong>$1,029 a month<\/strong> after the <strong>3.6% COLA<\/strong> confirmed by the <strong>Social Security Administration (SSA)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, not every family with a child with a disability qualifies. The SSA reviews both the child&#8217;s medical condition and the <strong>income and resources of the parents<\/strong> who live with the child.<\/p>\n<h2>Requirements for a child to receive SSI<\/h2>\n<p>A child under 18 can qualify for SSI if they meet these conditions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Medical condition<\/strong> | a physical or mental condition that causes &#8220;marked and severe functional limitations&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duration<\/strong> | the condition must have lasted, or be expected to last, at least 12 months or result in death.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Work<\/strong> | the child must not be working and earning more than the substantial gainful activity limit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Income and resources<\/strong> | the household must be within the program&#8217;s limits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What parental deeming is<\/h2>\n<p>Until the child turns 18, the SSA counts part of the <strong>parents&#8217; income and resources<\/strong> as if they belonged to the child. This process is known as <strong>deeming<\/strong>. The agency first subtracts allowances for the parents and for the other children in the home, and only the remaining amount is considered available to the child.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, two families with similar children can receive very different amounts, or one of them may not qualify at all. The resource limit for the child is $2,000, but part of the parents&#8217; assets above their own allowance is also counted. The family home and one car are not counted.<\/p>\n<h2>What happens when the child turns 18<\/h2>\n<p>At 18, the parents&#8217; income is no longer counted, and the SSA reviews the case using the <strong>adult disability rules<\/strong>. Many young people who did not qualify as children can begin receiving SSI at that point. We explained the general rules in our guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/who-actually-qualifies-for-ssi-in-2026-and-the-resource-limits-that-trip-up-so-many-applicants\/\">who qualifies for SSI and the resource limits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>When the new amount arrives<\/h2>\n<p>Like all SSI recipients, children will receive the first payment with the COLA on <strong>Thursday, December 31, 2026<\/strong>, which corresponds to January. Before that, the November payment arrives early, on Friday, October 30. The full schedule is in our <a href=\"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/social-security-payments-rest-of-october-2026-calendar\/\">calendar for the rest of October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new amounts for adults are the same: up to $1,029 for an individual, as detailed in our article about <a href=\"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/ssi-2027-payment-1029-first-increase-december-31\/\">SSI payments in 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSI for children rises to a maximum of $1,029 in 2027. The disability rules, parental deeming and the resource limit families must meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,11,3],"class_list":["post-292305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-cola","tag-disability-benefits","tag-ssi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292307,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292305\/revisions\/292307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tododisca.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}