Does my son have to be receiving disability benefits for me to list him as disabled

[mamacitachikita]

Not sure that it would change anything either way but when it asked for more info on our children I'm wondering if I should check the box marked disabled for my son even though he does not receive any disability benefits. He has juvenile epilepsy and a brain aneurysm neither condition is going away.

[KatherineC]

No, your son does not have to be receiving disability income to indicate that he is disabled.

For information on when the Social Security Administration considers a child to be disabled, please go to the link below and begin reading at the bottom of page 5, "SSI Rules about Disability". 

https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10026.pdf