The Social Security Administration is making significant adjustments to its spousal benefits program in 2026, ensuring that the system better serves today’s diverse family structures. These changes, ...

The Social Security Administration seeks to help millions of people with various economic benefits and every year they try to ...

These benefits are often misunderstood but could play a huge role in your retirement finances.

Spousal benefits are available to current spouses and some ex-spouses of qualifying workers. Claiming early can reduce your spousal benefit by up to 35%. You'll only get a spousal benefit if it's ...

Social Security spousal benefits can be worth up to 50% of your spouse's benefit at their full retirement age. You can grow your own benefits by delaying your claim, but you can't grow a spousal ...

Social Security benefits are available based on your own work record or a spouse's work history. If your spouse made more money than you did, you may want to claim on their record. Unfortunately, you ...

I've been saving up questions I've gotten from readers about benefits for spouses. It's an issue I've covered a hundred times in this column. But the questions still keep coming.

'I delayed collecting my benefits until this year, when I turned 70' Spouses can no longer switch between their own retirement benefits and spousal benefits when they're eligible for both upon ...

Social Security plays a key role for many, but the actual amount people receive varies widely because it largely depends on career earnings. Social Security takes the 35 years when your earnings were ...