spousal

Answer: If she applies for Social Security now, she would be “deemed” to be applying for both her own benefit and her spousal benefit and given the larger of the two.

Can she just roll it over into her existing Roth IRA, as is generally permitted for spousal IRA inheritance?

In 1998, he was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading no contest to felony spousal abuse against Anderson.

Dear Liz: I believe you provided bad information to the woman inquiring about Social Security spousal benefits for her husband.

If your credits were earned decades ago at low-paying jobs, then your spousal benefit might well be larger than your own retirement benefit.