This little-known restricted application rule can significantly boost retirement income for surviving spouses.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) delivers survivor benefits to nearly 6 million people each year. The payments help ...

If the spouse was already receiving their own Social Security retirement benefits, they can only apply for Social Security survivor benefits if it is a larger amount than their own retirement ...

Data source: Social Security Administration ... Similarly, you can also collect survivor benefits based on an ex-spouse's record as long as you meet the 10-year requirement.

If a financially well-off individual had multiple ex-spouses, could it happen that the multiple ex-spouses could each be ...

Social Security is best known for providing retirement income to tens of millions of retired workers, but there's a lot more to the program. One of the most important, but often misunderstood ...

Though Congress acted on a bipartisan basis last year to pass legislation ending two controversial tax provisions that ...

The Social Security Fairness Act is now law, and a year of backdated payments await nearly 3 million Americans.

Qualifying for Social Security benefits in retirement generally goes something like this: Work and pay taxes on your income.

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates the reduction of Social Security benefits based on your work record or the work ...

Just like when applying for personal retirement benefits from Social Security ... makes sense for the high-earning spouse to wait until age 70 to increase survivor benefits.