just musing on an issue....

[LdiJ]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NA for this thread.

We constantly have people coming here who don't understand why a first child or children should get more support than subsequent children, or than children in the home of the ncp.

The way children's benefits work with SSDI, is that 50% of the parent's benefit the the benefit amount for the children, which if you add it all together, is 33.33% of the total of the two. If the SSDI recipient has only one child, that one child gets the whole amount. If the SSDI recipient has multiple children, its evenly divided between the child.

Wouldn't that cause some chaos? Every ncp would have to pay 33.33% unless they had more children that lived with them...we would have ncp's rushing to have more kids just to keep more money in their household.

 

[mistoffolees]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NA for this thread.

We constantly have people coming here who don't understand why a first child or children should get more support than subsequent children, or than children in the home of the ncp.

The way children's benefits work with SSDI, is that 50% of the parent's benefit the the benefit amount for the children, which if you add it all together, is 33.33% of the total of the two. If the SSDI recipient has only one child, that one child gets the whole amount. If the SSDI recipient has multiple children, its evenly divided between the child.

Wouldn't that cause some chaos? Every ncp would have to pay 33.33% unless they had more children that lived with them...we would have ncp's rushing to have more kids just to keep more money in their household.

Haven't you been paying attention? That's already happening. It doesn't matter whether it's welfare or SSDI or child support - some people think that having kids is their path to financial freedom.

 

[LdiJ]

Haven't you been paying attention? That's already happening. It doesn't matter whether it's welfare or SSDI or child support - some people think that having kids is their path to financial freedom.

Yeah, but then they would be extra motivated. Everybody would know that if you had two more kids with your next squeeze, that your child support would drop to 11.11% for your first child...and so forth.

I am glad that my daughter is smarter than that. She doesn't want another child until she is in a stable career and a stable long term relationship, preferibly married.

 

[nextwife]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NA for this thread.

We constantly have people coming here who don't understand why a first child or children should get more support than subsequent children, or than children in the home of the ncp.

The way children's benefits work with SSDI, is that 50% of the parent's benefit the the benefit amount for the children, which if you add it all together, is 33.33% of the total of the two. If the SSDI recipient has only one child, that one child gets the whole amount. If the SSDI recipient has multiple children, its evenly divided between the child.

Wouldn't that cause some chaos? Every ncp would have to pay 33.33% unless they had more children that lived with them...we would have ncp's rushing to have more kids just to keep more money in their household.

Do you specifically spend 33.33% of your income specifically and only on one child in YOUR home?

Also, if a CP has subsequent children, do you think they continue to provide the same amount of financial support to the firstborn, or might the CP reduce what they spend specifically on child 1 in porder to also support child 2? Or 3?