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How Divorce Affects Your Social Security Benefits
Are you receiving Social Security Benefits and getting a divorce? You may be able to claim benefits based on your former spouse’s work record. If you had been married to someone for ten (10) years or more and then divorced, you may be able to claim retirement or survivors benefits from the Social Security Administration based on your former spouse’s employment record. Your claim to benefits has no effect on what your former spouse (or his or her current spouse, if he or she has remarried) receives. Therefore, they can have no objection for your seeking payments. Read more…
Source: http://www.afairway.com, October 18, 2013
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