A widow in her early seventies opens her bank statement a few months after her husband’s funeral and notices the deposits look different. One Social Security check used to land in his name, another in ...

Facing Social Security decisions after losing a spouse can feel confusing, especially when the rules change based on age, ...

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 ...

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

Losing a spouse is already an overwhelming emotional experience, but thefinancial consequences can be equally devastating. One of the biggest surprisessurviving spouses face is the "widow's penalty," ...

A 58-year-old widow collecting $1,950 a month on her late husband’s Social Security benefit meets someone wonderful and starts thinking about a wedding. Her financial advisor mentions, almost in ...

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

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 ...