With married couples, lower - earning partners may qualify for
bigger benefit spousal benefits than the retirement benefits they would receive on their own work records.
Not exact matches
For couples with
big differences in earnings, consider claiming the
spousal benefit which may be better than claiming your own.
That would be a
big hit to their bottom line because of the impact on social security
spousal benefits.
And we were going through Social Security, and some claiming strategies when it comes to Social Security, and we talked about — for those of you listen to the show you probably know the two
big things that you should understand before you claim your Social Security
benefit: one is the
spousal benefit, and one is the survivor
benefit.