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10 Facts About Social Security Benefits for Survivors - AARP Over the years, survivor benefits became gender-neutral and expanded further to cover divorced spouses as well as widowers and widows In March 2025 they accounted for 8 4 percent of Social Security recipients, providing payments to more than 5 8 million people
Can I Collect a Deceased Spouses Social Security and My Own? - AARP Social Security will not combine a late spouse's benefit and your own and pay you both When you are eligible for two benefits, such as a survivor benefit and a retirement payment, Social Security doesn’t add them together but rather pays you the higher of the two amounts
How Do I Change From Survivor Benefits to My Own Social Security? - AARP If you are the widow or widower of a spouse who consistently earned more money than you, it doesn’t matter when you switch to your own retirement benefit Social Security will pay the higher amount — and in this case, the survivor benefit would be higher than your own retirement benefit
Eligible For Both Retirement And Survivor Benefits - AARP Survivor: For most widows and widowers, the earliest age of eligibility for survivor benefits is 60 (50 if you have a disability) The portion of your late spouse’s Social Security that you can collect rises from 71 5 percent if you file at 60 (or during your 50s in cases of disability) to 100 percent at your full retirement age
Multiple Marriages and Social Security Survivor Benefits - AARP A widow or widower and a divorced ex-spouse (or multiple ex-spouses) can draw survivor benefits on the same person's earnings record without affecting what the other receives Andy Markowitz is a writer and editor for AARP, covering Social Security and fraud He is a former editor of The Prague Post and Baltimore City Paper