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Here are some details - If you are getting SS benefits and you die this month, even if it's the 31st, your next check has to be sent back to Social Security. Then, your spouse can collect money on your account. They have rules about things - like you have to have been married for ten years. Or, the spouse has to be 65 to get it. If you aren't collecting benefits your spouse has to wait until they are 65 to collect it. If you have minor children, they get a check each month until they are of legal age. If you have no spouse and your children are grown, the children get a lump sum payment which is only a few hundred dollars.

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Someone has to pay for the funeral and that person will get a death certificate to show Social Security. That person also takes the parent's S.S. Card with them. Then, Social Security will give them a check. It will be a lump sum payment and might only be a few hundred dollars. If the wife or husband is still alive they get the money otherwise the child who goes to the S.S. gets it.

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The executor of the estate or a family member must notify the Social Security Administration and provide a death certificate. The payments then stop. If there is a surviving spouse or child who is entitled to continuing benefits, the SSA will begin making payments under the Survivor's name.

There have been cases of fraud, where either family members or roommates have failed to notify the Social Security Administration of the party's death, then collected and spent the income themselves. This is a felony criminal offense punishable by prison and court-ordered reimbursement.

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Upom Your Demise They Stop Payments. If That's Not Bad Enough If You Expire Before a Check Is Cut In Your Name It Is To Be Returned. I Hope This Helps, God Bless

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