We'll walk you through how surviving spouses might navigate different benefit types from the Social Security Administration ...

Q: My husband died several months ago. I'm 64. I'm getting my own retirement benefits, and he was getting his own benefits. His Social Security check was more than mine, so I think I am due widow's ...

Workers and spouses become eligible for Social Security retirement benefits at age 62, but widow(er)s are eligible for survivors' benefits at age 60. Survivors' benefits let widow(er)s inherit their ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A local family was able to get a veteran's widow, who has dementia, nearly $20,000 in spousal benefits from the Veterans Administration with help from the ABC7 I-Team. Many veterans ...

Question: A woman from Moline writes: ``My first husband passed away when I was 33. I have been married to my current husband since I was 43. I will be 60 later this year, and I have heard that Social ...

The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld a state agency’s denial of additional death benefits to the widow of a fire technician who died after entering a room filled with nitrogen gas at the Faircrest Steel ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A New Mexico court has ruled that the widow of an off-duty tribal police officer who died more than a decade ago while rescuing a boy is entitled to workers’ compensation ...

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Some of the firefighters killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire were only seasonal Prescott city employees so their families don’t qualify for full survivors’ benefits, which has pushed ...

Q: My husband died several months ago. I’m 64. I’m getting my own retirement benefits, and he was getting his own benefits. His Social Security check was more than mine, so I think I am due widow’s ...

Talking to a SSA representative in person is designed to help you make sure you understand your options and make the best choice you can about when to start your widow’s benefits. Frazao Studio Latino ...