Survivor benefits
Understanding Survivor Benefits
One of the most-often questioned areas of Social Security relates to the issue of survivor benefits and what scenarios need to be considered when one’s initial filing decisions are made. For example, what will be the increase a lower-earning spouse…
Widowed? Don’t Waste This Key Social Security Benefit
Social Security provides monthly survivor benefits following the death of a spouse. But the way that these survivor benefits supplement other Social Security benefits isn’t always easy to understand. As Dan Caplinger points out in this piece, there have been many documented…
Widows could benefit by changing Social Security’s survivor rules
While it’s true that women have made great strides to correct income inequality in the workplace, it’s a sad fact that widows are three times more likely to live in poverty than their married counterparts. This is largely because of the…
Social Security payments after death of a spouse
There are a myriad of rules and regulations regarding Social Security benefits, and they are quite complex to the layperson. In this post, Phillip Moeller describes what happens to the Social Security benefits both spouses were receiving when one dies. …