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Way too many unanswered questions. There are a number of critrria under which someone may qualify for benefits under another person's account. What is the specific category under which you ever qualified in the first place.
For example, if a step-child qualifies, that eligibility ends with divorce.
Way too many unanswered questions. There are a number of critrria under which someone may qualify for benefits under another person's account. What is the specific category under which you ever qualified in the first place.
For example, if a step-child qualifies, that eligibility ends with divorce.
What kind of unanswered questions?
She's talking about collecting her ex's social security. She's not asking about benefits for a kid.
Way too many unanswered questions. There are a number of critrria under which someone may qualify for benefits under another person's account. What is the specific category under which you ever qualified in the first place.
For example, if a step-child qualifies, that eligibility ends with divorce.
There are no other questions in the ops case as far as just getting an amount .
They have not stated their age which is key when it comes to filing or whether they are eligible to just file restricted application letting theirs grow while taking spousal
She's talking about collecting her ex's social security. She's not asking about benefits
for a kid.
OK, then -- under what SS program was she ever eligible for any SS benefits under her husband? My wife was never eligible for any of my benefits, and still isn't. What made here eligible for that benefit? Look up her former status, and it will be easy to find her current status. Merely divorcing a beneficiary does not necessarily, for that reason alone, give entitlement to any of his benefits.
If you were not at least 62 in 2015 and grand fathered in , then you cannot let your own ss grow and take half of your spouses .
As a spouse or ex spouse , If you missed the cutoff then you only get your own ss first , and if half your ex’s is more than your full you get the difference added to yours .
Those 62 in 2015 or older can leave theirs alone and take half the ex’s no matter if their own is larger or not. That is called filing restricted application.
It was killed off as an option unless you were grandfathered in
I have looked through the SS website and I can not find how to get the numbers of what I could collect if I collected under my ex. We were married over 10 years and I have never remarried.
I think I see where HE could put in the info to find out but I can't ask him to do that.
Does anyone know the process to get that information?
Helps if you know his social but not necessary. Visit a social security office or call to find out whether your full social security is more than half of his at his FRA. My friend did this. Also note, if he dies before you do you then get whatever he was getting at death so long as you meet other requirements. https://www.aarp.org/retirement/soci...vivor-benefit/
I believe you need to be a qualified SS recipient yourself, in order to qualify for any of your spouse's benefits.
Do you have a SS number? Is the spouse still alive?
I know someone female, married more than 10 yrs and divorced who used her dead husband’s SS earnings to qualify for Medicare and SS spousal
She didn’t have enough credits of her own
I didn’t know you could use spouse’s credits for Medicare eligibility
I know someone female, married more than 10 yrs and divorced who used her dead husband’s SS earnings to qualify for Medicare and SS spousal
She didn’t have enough credits of her own
I didn’t know you could use spouse’s credits for Medicare eligibility
If her ex is dead spousal ends when they do ….she may have gotten survivor benefits from him
You will definitely need your marriage certificate and divorce final decree. And his SS#.
That makes sense. I was skeptical that SS would provide information about an ex-spouse's benefit amount without checking those documents first.
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