---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 404.371"
title: "20"
number: "404.371"
heading: "When parent's benefits begin and end."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/404.371"
---

# §404.371. When parent's benefits begin and end.

- (a) You are entitled to parent's benefits beginning with the first month covered by your application in which you meet all the other requirements for entitlement.
- (b) Your entitlement to benefits ends with the month before the month in which one of the following events first occurs:
  - (1) **You become entitled to an old-age benefit equal to or larger than the parent's benefit.**
  - (2) You marry, unless your marriage is to someone entitled to wife's, husband's, widow's, widower's, mother's, father's, parent's or disabled child's benefits. If you marry a person entitled to these benefits, the marriage does not affect your benefits.
  - (3) **You die.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[44 FR 34481, June 15, 1979, as amended at 49 FR 24116, June 12, 1984]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 202, 203(a) and (b), 205(a), 216, 223, 225, and 702(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402, 403(a) and (b), 405(a), 416, 423, 425, and 902(a)(5)).

### Source

Source: 44 FR 34481, June 15, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[44 FR 34481, June 15, 1979, as amended at 49 FR 24116, June 12, 1984]