The Huffington Post covers the Center for Global Policy Solutions’s findings on Social Security benefits for young children. In 2014, 6.4 million American children, or 9 percent of all U.S. kids, either received Social Security directly or rely on someone who does.
The report by the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a progressive think tank, argues that Social Security’s increasingly important role as a source of income for children is partially the result of the flat wages affecting many American workers.
The new paper analyzes Current Population Survey and Social Security Administration data to measure Social Security’s impact on Americans under age 18 in 2014, the most current year available.
The nonprofit’s findings are significant because while the Social Security Administration counts the number of children who receive Social Security directly as beneficiaries, it does not count indirect beneficiaries, including children living in households with adults who receive benefits , such as grandparents or other relatives. (Children under age 18 can receive Social Security benefits directly if one of their parents has died, or if they have a parent receiving benefits as a retired or severely disabled worker.)
