Losing a spouse is an emotional and challenging experience, and it often brings financial concerns to the forefront. Social Security benefits can provide critical support to widows, helping them ...

And that means you should not get spousal benefits on his Social Security record. And don’t even get me started on benefits for so-called divorced widows. If you are divorced from someone, how can you ...

PeopleImages / Getty Images I get a lot of emails from women who have questions about the widows benefits they are already getting. Or they have questions about the widows benefits they think they ...

Widows benefits are benefits available to the surviving spouse of deceased workers. If the worker claimed Social Security early, this will also reduce the maximum widows benefit available to their ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...