A widow at 60 walks into the Social Security office a few weeks after her husband’s funeral. He had been collecting $3,200 ...

“Social Security is supposed to step up when a spouse passes..." Kevin Thompson told Newsweek.

A new Social Security rule gets rid of two provisions, WEP and GPO, that once limited benefits for millions of people. Here's ...

A 58-year-old widow collecting $1,950 a month on her late husband’s Social Security benefit meets someone wonderful and ...

Losing a spouse is already an overwhelming emotional experience, but thefinancial consequences can be equally devastating. One of the biggest surprisessurviving spouses face is the "widow's penalty," ...

Social Security quietly implemented a rule change that may put thousands of dollars into the pockets of many retired divorcees and widows. The rule change mainly applies to widows and divorced spouses ...

The widow, whose story was shared on Reddit's r/SocialSecurity forum, was legally married decades ago to a man she hadn't seen or spoken to in over 30 years. Although they had gone their separate ways ...

Last year, the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General completed an audit and issued a report critical of how the agency handled claims from widows. It said that SSA clerks ...