Social Security Student and Former Child Beneficiaries Aged 18–21

For the first tzme since benefits under the Social Security Act were lestablished in 1965 for certain young persons aged 1841, the role of these benefits in relation to family resources ad to scholarship and loan assistance ~8 bezng studied. These monthly child’s benefits are pnyable to young men and young women-the children of disabled, retired, and deceased workers-who are unmarried and attmdmg school full time As a preliminary to a 1973 survey of student benefiozarics and thezr famrlles, th.e Boczal Security Admdstratzon gathered information %n 1972 on the main activities of young people aged 18-22 who were then entitled to &&dent benefits or who had been receiving benefits up to a l/ear before the survey (zn.cluding former chzld benefkiaries aged 18-19 who had not received student bene$ts). Th,e jE?zdzngs of the mail survey reported here show*ea a positive correlation between amount and continued schbolzng. monthly benefit