Mary Beth Franklin: Social Security benefits include past inflation adjustments
COLA preserves value of spousal benefit for couples with wide age gaps.
I recently received a great question about Social Security benefits that I had never before encountered. Carl Holubowich, a financial adviser in Washington, D.C., said that he has a female client who recently reached her full retirement age of 66 and wanted to file a restricted claim for spousal ben
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