Congress changed a law in 1977 allowing a widow who remarries to continue collecting benefits from her first husband’s Social ...

Q: My mother told me she remembers a time when women had to “live in sin” (those are her words) to avoid losing Social ...

Despite Social Security's wide reach, a small but vulnerable group of elderly Americans never receives its benefits.

In this installment, we’re talking about Social Security benefit options for surviving spouses — in other words, widows and ...

The Social Security system allows a spouse to claim a benefit based on the earnings of their spouse after they have passed.

Social Security was put in place nearly 90 years ago to provide a safety net of sorts. There is voluminous research about its effects on those most directly intended to be caught by that net — among ...

Oman has a new social protection law that paves the way for a universal social security system, Human Rights Watch said today ...

The Social Security Administration has shared the official payment schedule for 2025 after the COLA was released. Benefits ...

The Social Security Administration recently announced several key changes to the program for 2025. Here's what you need to ...

Both current and former spouses can claim spousal benefits from a worker’s Social Security record. Wife and widow benefits were established in 1939. Their design was based on a family structure ...