For survivor benefits, timing is everything under new Social Security rules
The Social Security Administration's file-and-suspend guidance injects some confusion regarding the choice between survivor and retirement benefits.
Ever since President Barack Obama signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 which eliminates two key Social Security claiming strategies for future retirees, I have received numerous questions from readers worried that the current choice of collecting retirement benefits or survivor benefits would di
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