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

It ends the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), which reduced or eliminated the Social ...

Social Security offers risk-free passive income for retirees. Delaying benefits, coordinating with a spouse, and minimizing ...

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

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More than 3 million people are about to get a bump to their Social Security checks thanks to the Social Security Fairness Act, a new law that eliminates two previous rules that reduced retirees' ...

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy said the Social Security Administration must implement the Social Security Fairness Act as ...

1. Retirement or Spouse’s Benefits: You must be at least 61 years and 9 months and want your benefits to start in no more than 4 months. Apply at www.ssa.gov/retirement. 2. Disability Benefits: You ...

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

Here’s an example. Let’s say your own Social Security retirement benefit is $800 per month and your widow’s benefit is $3,400 ...

It took 40 years for Congress to pass a law to boost Social Security for public workers. Now, SSA says they must wait at ...