#124 - Social Security Rules Women May Not Know: Survivor Benefits, Retirement Age & Taxes
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Social Security rules can look straightforward until survivor benefits, retirement ages, taxes, and your personal history start overlapping.
Understanding where these rules came from can help you recognize which details deserve a closer look before you file.
In this episode, I look back at how Social Security has changed and why that history still affects women making retirement decisions today. I explain why some people have two different full retirement ages, how survivor and divorced-spouse benefits developed, and how rules around remarriage have changed. I also cover Social Security taxation, cost-of-living adjustments, and several numbers that haven't kept pace with inflation.
EPISODE SUMMARY
- Why retirement and survivor benefits can have different full retirement ages for the same person
- How survivor benefits developed and why a spouse's filing age can affect the surviving spouse
- Why a 10-year marriage remains an important threshold when considering benefits from an ex-spouse
- How Social Security taxation thresholds have remained unchanged even as incomes and costs have risen
- Why understanding today's Social Security rules can help women make more informed retirement decisions
- And more!
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