20 CFR §404.371
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- (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.