The increased payments are tied to a recent Social Security rule change that could mean thousands more for widows and divorced spouses. Are you eligible?

Social Security quietly implemented a rule change that may put thousands of dollars into the pockets of many retired divorcees and widows. The rule change mainly applies to widows and divorced spouses ...

Losing a spouse is emotionally overwhelming, and the financial decisions thatfollow can feel just as heavy. The rules regarding Social Security survivorbenefits may be confusing for some, and many ...

As a Certified Financial Planner™, I work with a lot of widows trying to navigate the tricky world of Social Security benefits after their spouse passes away. Social Security provides you, as a widow, ...

For decades, a particular kind of federal widow learned to live with a strange arithmetic: her late husband paid into Social ...

“Social Security is supposed to step up when a spouse passes..." Kevin Thompson told Newsweek.

A widow at 60 walks into the Social Security office a few weeks after her husband’s funeral. He had been collecting $3,200 ...

Widows and widowers lost thousands due to a Social Security blunder. Thousands of widows and widowers have been short-changed of their Social Security payments as a result of blunders by the Social ...

A new Social Security rule gets rid of two provisions, WEP and GPO, that once limited benefits for millions of people. Here's who benefits and by how much.