If you pay less than your fair share in food and living expenses while living with someone else, you may see a reduction in SSI benefits. Deemed income attributes part of the income of a spouse or person living in the same household who does not qualify for SSI as income to the SSI re...
If a parent dies, the surviving spouse may receive survivor benefits as a caregiver if he has the child of the deceased in her care. The child must be under age 16 and eligible for monthly survivor benefits. Divorced spouses may qualify for survivor benefits as caregivers. Remarriage of recip...