The widow's penalty can reduce your Social Security income after a spouse dies. Learn how this works, why it happens, and ...

Eventually, your clients will need to discuss how their assets will be divided and distributed when the grim reaper comes knocking. You could say that this is what makes the least pleasant among all ...

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to increase Social Security benefits for widowed Americans as well as people who are divorced yet still entitled to benefits from their deceased ...

Democrats in Congress are racing to expand Social Security protections for widows and surviving divorced spouses at the very moment the program's main trust fund is edging toward insolvency. The push ...