When a veteran receiving disability compensation dies, the first change a surviving spouse notices is immediate. The monthly payment that helped carry the household stops. What m ...
Q: I understand paying benefits to widows. But I don’t understand paying benefits to divorcees. A woman who is divorced is not a widow. She is an ex-wife. So why does she have a claim to her ...
The number of people collecting Social Security survivor benefits in the U.S. has dropped by nearly 50,000 over the past year. The Social Security Administration (SSA) delivers survivor benefits to ...