SSDI for a child--a good idea or not?

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We are in a 3-month waiting period to get our child on our state insurance, but he has the opportunity to go to a special preschool for ASD kids. The state insurance or Medicaid would cover the tuition. We are slightly above the maximum income for Medicaid.

Would having SSDI as a child affect his future educational and work opportunities?

I can't imagine how a prescool program could do that.

Many children are in PPCD (preschool program for children with disabilities), ECI (early childhood intervention) [These may have other names in other states/countries] and continue with special education support or even in regular classrooms without support.

I am not sure how you are imagining this would play out.

Besides, how would a future employer ever find out anyway?

I cannot think why getting help from Social Security would ever even come up in any future educational or work related discussion. I would suspect that they keep a pretty high level of privacy in that regards? Wouldn't that fall under the HIPPA laws? A call to your local SS office should be able to answer that.

Children actually get SSI, not SSDI, and the amount received is based on parent's income. Check on the social security website, but I suspect if your income is too high for medicaid, it's probably too high for SSI. Daisy receives SSI for another medical condition, our total income is less than 1000/month, and she receives less than 100/month in SSI.

As far as it affecting his future, no, it won't. Never have I been questioned about Daisy's SSI in the past 11 years.

Thank you, guys. I was asking on behalf of DH. He's rather paranoid about the government.

In our state, the school district pays for preschools for special needs kids. We don't have to go through SSI. Have you looked into this?