The eligible child of deceased parents receives up to 75 percent of the deceased parent’s benefit, but the children of retired and disabled workers get up to one-half of their parent’s benefit. On Average, it's about 1.2 million children of dead parents who are receiving survivor benefits of $883 monthly. In addition, there are 343,125 children who get $683 in benefits every month because their parents are retired. On the other hand, the $374 is provided to the 1.3 million children of disabled parents.