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Best answer by null725
If your children or dependents receive Social Security survivors/disability benefits, that is income to them, not to you. You do not enter it on your tax return. Look at Box 2 of the SSA-1099 and you should see the person's SSN.
If that is the only income a child/dependent has, then the child/dependent does not have to file or report it either.
If the child\dependent has enough other income to be required to file, then the child reports the SS on their own return.

4 replies

Level 13
June 5, 2019
Did you get a SSA-1099 ?
tanisharwAuthor
Level 2
June 5, 2019
Yes. They are for my children. Their father passed.
null725Answer
Level 13
June 5, 2019
If your children or dependents receive Social Security survivors/disability benefits, that is income to them, not to you. You do not enter it on your tax return. Look at Box 2 of the SSA-1099 and you should see the person's SSN.
If that is the only income a child/dependent has, then the child/dependent does not have to file or report it either.
If the child\dependent has enough other income to be required to file, then the child reports the SS on their own return.
Level 2
January 30, 2023

You do claim it if you have more than 1 child with SSI survivor benefits and also work I found that out myself