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When the social security system was created, a baby being conceived after one its parents had died was the stuff of wild imagination. Now it’s a reality that the social safety net has to deal with.
Using stored sperm and IVF technology, it’s possible to become pregnant with a dead man’s child. People do it. Do these kids deserve the same survivor benefits that Social Security pays to children whose parents have died after conception?
A mom who opted to have her husband’s sperm collected post-mortem won’t be getting any financial help from the government to raise her.
Gabriela Vernoff’s husband died in an accident in 1995, but she had his sperm extracted and frozen so she could have their baby four years later, in 1999. Now, ten years later, she’s been told she cannot collect Social Security benefits on the dead man’s child because she wasn’t a dependent during his life. Continue reading »
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