The federal agency has confirmed it receives some three million death notices every year, and that its death records are "highly accurate," with less than one-third of 1 percent being erroneously ...
Today’s column involves a husband and wife, both of whom were getting Social Security benefits — and the husband dies.
When a spouse dies, the emotional shock often collides with an immediate financial question: what happens to the Social Security income that helped pay the bills. Survivor rules are technical, but ...
Issues with the Social Security Administration's death database have resulted in millions of delayed or lost life insurance benefits.
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...