My wife and I and a group of our neighbors were chatting the other day, and it dawned on us that there are eight houses in a row on our block in which each of the couples has been married…
block in which each of the couples has been married for more than 50 years. Well, not quite. My wife and I are the “newlyweds” on the street. We’ve only been married 48 years. But the other seven couples have all reached the half-century mark. That’s more than 400 years of wedded bliss on our block alone.
People are also reading… Let me start out with this point: With just a couple exceptions, a divorced woman is due the same kind of Social Security benefits as a married woman. And just as with a married woman, a divorced woman will always be paid her own Social Security benefit first. Only after she is getting whatever she is due on her own account will they look to her ex-husband’s record to see if she can get any additional spousal benefits from him. And because the spousal rate is between about 33% and 50%, there is usually a pretty good chance that her own benefit exceeds any of these smaller-percentage benefits she might be due as a divorced spouse.
If the ex dies when she is under FRA, she could employ the same “widow’s option” that would be available for a currently married woman. And that option let’s her start benefits on one record and later switch to higher benefits on the other record. For example, assuming she is not working, a woman could take divorced widow’s benefits as early as age 60. She’d get about 71% of her ex’s full benefit rate. Then she could switch to 100% of her own Social Security benefit at FRA.
A: No. As long as you are married to husband No. 2, you can’t get any Social Security benefits from No. 1.
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