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 ...

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 ...

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Issues with the Social Security Administration's death database have resulted in millions of delayed or lost life insurance benefits.

If a person who was getting Social Security benefits dies, but doesn’t have a spouse, then someone needs to notify the SSA of the death and follow the rules explained above about returning the last ...

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 ...