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

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 ...

If your wife files this year, Social Security would need to withhold $1 of the benefits payable from her record, including spousal benefits, for each $2 that she earns in excess of $18,240 in 2020.

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 ...

Will My Wife Get 50% Of My Social Security Retirement Benefit ... if you die before her, your wife widow's rate will include any ... I filed for my Social Security retirement benefits at 62 in ...

Danielle McSwain — Columbia, S.C.: My mother retired at age 62 and recently passed at age 64. She was receiving Social Security benefits prior to her death in June of this year.

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 ...

One-half of your spouse’s benefit, $1,200, is more than your retirement benefit of $1,000, so Social Security would add the difference of $200 to your payment as a spousal benefit. You’d then ...

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 wife is 76, born in 1948. She retired at full retirement age and currently collects $1,076 per month. I will be retiring and start collecting at 70 this year (I was born in 1954). When I ...