[Night Hides Not]

I started drawing at 63, not knowing about the dependent care benefit. My son graduates from HS in a few weeks, the total benefit brought in an extra 30K over the past 3 years.

I kept a record of the money we spent on him...the money helped, but we sure as heck didn't profit from it.

[entropy12]

Same here, I wondered why when I was signing up to draw SS at age 62 the clerk asked me if I had any minor children. So what if I had them, what has that anything to do with my SS benefit?

As it turns our 2nd child was born when I was 53. So I had a 9 year old and a 11 year old at home. Both of them received benefits until reaching age 18. I never knew this and all the retirement seminars I attended at my large employer’s (5000+ employees) I never heard about that benefit.