Jim Blankenship, CFP, Blankenship Financial Planning, answered a recent question we received from a reader: If my wife takes her Social Security at 63 and later I die, will her survivor benefit be ...

Claiming age has a significant effect on the size of your survivors benefit. Remarriage could render you ineligible for survivors benefits if it happens before age 60. Social Security retirement ...

Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits ... The SSA, which distributes retirement, survivor, and disability benefits to more than 70 million people every month ...