The widow's penalty can reduce your Social Security income after a spouse dies. Learn how this works, why it happens, and ...

Learn how Social Security checks, survivor benefits, taxes, and work rules can change after a spouse dies so you're not ...

I hope there is nothing in the air that is causing old goats like me to keel over. For some reason, I’ve been getting a lot of questions from widows lately. Here are some of them. Q: I am 90 years old ...

Q: I understand paying benefits to widows. But I don’t understand paying benefits to divorcees. A woman who is divorced is not a widow. She is an ex-wife. So why does she have a claim to her ...

The widow, whose story was shared on Reddit's r/SocialSecurity forum, was legally married decades ago to a man she hadn't seen or spoken to in over 30 years. Although they had gone their separate ways ...

Today’s column involves a husband and wife, both of whom were getting Social Security benefits — and the husband dies.