Larry Blanchard responds:

In article , says...
So the kid I went to high school with, whose mother had died, was
lying when he said he was getting social security payments? Wasn't
disabled in any way that was evident in years of knowing him.

OK, I forgot that case. But he was getting it only because his mother
(or father) had sufficient quarters to qualify. And he stopped getting
it at 18 or 21 or whenever he finished school, I forget which.

I do know about that because we raised my brother-in-law who was about
10 when his parents died. We had to keep extensive records to prove
that what we got from SS for him was spent on him. It's been a long
time, but I remember those payments as being very small.


18 if not in school, 21 if. It ends when school stops in any case.

Probably easier to let the orphans starve.

Charlie Self
"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen." Ambrose Bierce, The
Devil's Dictionary