Resolving confusion over Social Security survivor benefits
Higher-earning spouse wrongly believed she couldn't collect widow's benefit.
Social Security benefits can be pretty darn confusing. But sometimes, what a Social Security representative tells prospective beneficiaries and what those consumers hear may be two different things. As memorialized in the 1967 movie “Cool Hand Luke,” what we've got here is a failure to c
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