Many divorced boomers may be missing Social Security benefits tied to an ex-spouse's record. Here's how eligibility, timing, and the survivor rules work.

Spousal benefits are valuable to married couples, and the qualifications are rather straightforward.

When couples get divorced after years or even decades of marriage, they will inevitably spend time dividing up their assets. However, not every American who gets a divorce realizes they may still be ...

A woman in her mid-60s, divorced after 22 years of marriage, recently posted on Reddit’s r/retirement forum asking whether she had “missed her window” to collect anything from Social Security based on ...

'I am 55 and my former spouse is 67' "My ex-spouse has never remarried. I believe he could collect on my Social Security. Is that correct?" (Photo subjects are models.) Dear Help Me Retire, Both my ...

Many divorced people do not know they may qualify for Social Security benefits from an ex-spouse. A rule allows eligible ...

Spouses with no work history can still claim Social Security benefits in certain situations. The spousal benefit can be as much as 50% of the retired worker's primary insurance amount. Spouses cannot ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A new bill could boost Social Security benefits for widowed and surviving divorced spouses. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced the Surviving Income Fair Treatment (SWIFT) Act in ...

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to increase Social Security benefits for widowed Americans as well as people who are divorced yet still entitled to benefits from their deceased ...

NATIONWIDE — WIDOWS, WIDOWERS AND SURVIVING DIVORCED SPOUSES WOULD BENEFIT FROM A NEW SOCIAL SECURITY BILL THAT U.S. SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND OF NEW YORK HAS INTRODUCED. The Surviving Widow(er) ...

Most retirees know the basics: claim early and get less, wait and get more. But a law signed in early 2025 rewrote rules that had quietly penalized millions of public workers for decades, and the ...