Ask any Social Security expert and they will tell you that the one thing recipients need to be aware of is their spousal and ...

Survivor benefits are currently paid to around 5.8 million Americans nationwide, with nearly 4 million of those being ...

Benefit caps, legal restrictions and claiming requirements for Social Security would change under the Surviving Widow(er) Income Fair Treatment, or SWIFT, Act, announced Wednesday by Sen. Kirsten ...

A new Social Security proposal would increase survivor benefits and raise support for disabled widows and widowers.

For millions of widowed Americans trying to stretch Social Security survivor benefits in an era of rising costs, help may ...

The SWIFT Act changes Social Security benefit rules by addressing older benefit caps, legal restrictions and claiming requirements.

A proposal in the Senate seeks to expand benefits for widows, divorced people, and caregivers of minors, in what would be the ...

Survivor benefits include the young children of deceased workers. Approximately 1.3 million minor children receive survivor ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) Social Security is underpaying widows and widowers - sometimes by large amounts. In cases where ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The widow of a woman who pushed to legalize same-sex marriage in Rhode Island before she died of cancer will be entitled to her Social Security benefits after a yearslong fight to ...

NEW YORK -- Robina Asti, a 92-year-old transgender woman denied survivor benefits by the Social Security Administration after her husband’s death is asking the agency to reverse the decision. NEW YORK ...