As these happen, your child’s benefits might change:
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medi-Cal have different rules for children and adults.
- Your child can manage his or her own Medi-Cal benefits and medical care.
- Some benefits are only for children, so if your child gets them now, he or she will stop getting them as an adult.
- Other benefits are only for adults, so your child may start getting them.
This doesn’t mean your child will be worse off: after turning 18, your child may qualify for the same benefits as before and possibly more.
Benefits programs are designed to make sure your child will be better off when working. Your child can get a job and still get the benefits he or she needs as an adult.