A parent of a deceased insured person is entitled to survivors benefits if:

1. The insured person was fully insured at the time of death; and
2. The parent files an application for survivors benefits; and
3. The parent has reached age 62; and
4. The parent is not entitled to a retirement insurance benefit that is equal to or larger than the amount of the unadjusted survivors benefit after any increase to the minimum benefit ; and
5. The parent was receiving at least one-half support from the insured person; and
6. Evidence that the support requirement was met has been filed with the Social Security Administration within the appropriate time limit; and
7. The parent has not remarried since the insured person's death; and
8. One of the following conditions is met:
   1. The parent claimant is a natural parent and would be eligible under the law of the state of the worker's domicile to share in the intestate personal property of the worker as the worker's parent father or mother, as the case may be; or
   2. The parent claimant had legally adopted the insured person before the insured person he or she attained age 16; or
   3. The person claiming benefits claimant became the deceased's insured person's stepparent by a marriage entered into before the deceased had attained age 16.