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412.Amount of Surviving Child's Insurance Benefit412.1How is the surviving child's benefit  rate computed?The surviving child's insurance benefit rate is three-fourths
(.75)  of the deceased parent's primary insurance amount.      412.2When is the benefit rate  less?The child's insurance benefit may be less than above if the
“family maximum” applies and all the benefits on that
earnings record have to be reduced. (See  §§730-732  for a discussion of the family maximum. See  §§733-737  for the effect
of simultaneous entitlement to more than one Social  Security benefit.)
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