By Quentin Fottrell 'I calculated her break-even point to be around age 78' "She was married to her first husband long enough to qualify as his widow for Social Security benefits ...

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

Learn how the survivor’s penalty can raise taxes after a spouse dies and what widows and widowers can do to reduce the hit.

Errors involving survivor benefits, health coverage and court orders can create financial problems years after a marriage ...

Losing a spouse in your early 60s upends nearly everything, including a retirement plan built around two paychecks. For a ...

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

Thousands of widows and widowers were underpaid Social Security benefits after a mistake by the Social Security Administration, costing surviving spouses more than $50 million combined, according to a ...

A 58-year-old widow collecting $1,950 a month on her late husband’s Social Security benefit meets someone wonderful and ...

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

Social Security benefits can be grouped into three categories: (1) retirement, (2) survivors, and (3) disability. The first category includes two subgroupings: retired-worker benefits and spousal ...

When a spouse dies, many widows assume that Social Security will automatically pay them the highest benefit available. That assumption is understandable, but it isn't always true. In reality, eligible ...