Ummm no. Your friend would only be eligible for benefits until 18 or 19 if he was still attending high school. His parents probably saved his benefits checks.
I only know what he told us at the time. And that was that his tuition (private university, not public) was paid by Social Security. Nobody thought anything of it at the time. Our group was in our late teen/early twenties. So such things didn't really matter to us.
We just thought it was a waste of money when we truly became adults and he never worked a day in his life after attaining the equivalent of three degrees in unrelated fields.
Ummm no. Your friend would only be eligible for benefits until 18 or 19 if he was still attending high school. His parents probably saved his benefits checks.
I only know what he told us at the time. And that was that his tuition (private university, not public) was paid by Social Security. Nobody thought anything of it at the time. Our group was in our late teen/early twenties. So such things didn't really matter to us.
We just thought it was a waste of money when we truly became adults and he never worked a day in his life after attaining the equivalent of three degrees in unrelated fields.