spouse

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Your benefit, in particular, would be whatever is higher — your own retirement benefit or what you’d get as a surviving spouse.

From MarketWatch

They include filing final tax returns, claiming Social Security survivor benefits if one spouse passes away and/or dealing with certain pensions or insurance claims.

From MarketWatch

For instance, someone who is 63 could get more than 80% of their spouse’s benefit, while someone at 65 can get more than 90%.

From MarketWatch

Often when we’re upset with a spouse or loved one, our instinct is to argue heatedly or completely shut down.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Successful surgery completed, without complications. Now we wait for him to wake up from anesthesia," his spouse, Michelle Bolsonaro, announced in an Instagram post.

From Barron's