If you can keep working while looking after your health, do it. You get 100% of your Social Security benefit at full ...

Dear Quentin, I am contemplating retiring at the end of the year. I’m married and will receive two monthly pension payments; ...

I took Social Security at full retirement age (FRA) in October 2020. My wife took hers shortly thereafter, not quite at FRA. We married in May 2014. Both are second marriages and she is collecting ...

My wife and I are in our 80s. We both worked and each of us started taking Social Security payments at age 62. My Social Security check is much larger than my wife's check because I had a higher ...

Do I get double benefits if I already receive a Social Security retirement check? No, you can’t collect two benefits at the same time if your spouse dies and you’re already receiving your own ...

That's why it can be really alarming to receive a notice that your benefit's about to get cut in half. That's what happened ...

But I have a question: I expect that I will predecease my wife, after which she’ll be able to take my larger Social Security benefit. But what happens if I die before the age of 70, say at age ...

My Social Security chart projects that I will receive about $4,500 a month if I make the same amount in 2024 as I did in 2023 (I will probably exceed that). I am married, and my wife is about five ...

I am a retired teacher. I never paid into Social Security; my teacher’s pension is about $4,000 per month. My husband’s job did pay into Social Security, and he gets $3,100 in retirement benefits.

Benefit amount. A divorced spouse can receive up to 50% of their ex’s full Social Security benefit, or less if they take benefits before their full retirement age, which is 66 for people born in ...

Social Security will not allow a spousal benefits claim unless the primary earner is getting retirement benefits. So, the wife in this scenario can’t access her spousal benefits until the ...