If my benefit is considerably
lower than my spouses should I wait and take a spousal benefit when he / she applies or take mine now and apply for an increased spousal benefit later?
Not exact matches
Depending on the situation (like if your
spouse is out of work, or if they are in a
lower tax bracket
than you), contributing to an RRSP might be a great idea even if you have enough retirement savings.
The data also shows that more women arrive in Canada as the
spouses of economic immigrants or as non-economic newcomers or refugees and have
lower employment rates and earn less
than the average wage.
This strategy may work best if you're younger
than full retirement age and you will have a
low monthly benefit at FRA compared with that of your deceased
spouse.
And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have
lower marital happiness and satisfaction
than white
spouses; they disagree more
than white
spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get less benefits from marriage
than white women and even black men do.
Women are overrepresented in
low - paying jobs and earn on average 19.1 % less
than their male counterparts in the same job, meaning they are unfairly disadvantaged if they have a foreign
spouse.
«To set the figure significantly higher
than even the # 13,400 gross annual wage effectively denies young people and many thousands of
low - wage earners in full time employment the ability to be joined by their non-EEA
spouses from abroad unless they happen to have wealthy relatives or to have won the lottery.
Analyses by the National Center for Health Statistics, for example, indicate that marriages between
spouses of the same race or ethnicity have a
lower divorce rate after 10 years
than interracial or interethnic couples (31 percent versus 41 percent).
But if it's in the
lower income earner's hands, it would be taxed at a
lower rate
than the higher income
spouse.
In this case if one
spouse has a higher income
than the other (and therefore higher marginal tax rate), it would make sense to keep all investments in the name of the
lower income
spouse so that the investment income is taxed at a
lower rate.
This results in a
lower taxable income on the final tax return of the first
spouse than the survivor.
If your
spouse or common - law partner is in a
lower tax bracket
than you, shifting this income to his or her hands helps
lower the total family tax bill.
In some cases, it would make sense to pay the tax on the RRSP from the deceased
spouse's final tax return, if the tax rate is
lower than for the surviving
spouse.
This is a variation on the above strategy, but in this case, rather
than the
lower - income
spouse buying the investments with his or her own money, the higher - income
spouse lends money to the
lower - income
spouse, who then uses it to buy the investments.
Setting up a spousal RRSP is a good idea if you expect your
spouse or common - law partner to be in a
lower tax bracket
than you on retirement.
Joint life annuities produce the
lowest payments because the combined lifespan of both
spouses is greater
than for a single
spouse.
«If your
spouse is younger
than you, your minimum withdrawal would be
lower than if it were based on your age, but you have to elect whose age to use before your first RIF withdrawal, and once you choose, you can't change your decision.»
But if you file for benefits at 62 rather
than wait, and
lower your payments in the process, your
spouse will get less money each month as well.
If you and your
spouse file as Married Filing Jointly, your tax may be
lower than your combined tax would be for another filing status.
You and / or your
spouse have a lot of medical expenses (especially if one
spouse has a
lower Adjusted Gross Income amount
than the other
spouse)
If one
spouse doesn't work, the newly married
spouse's tax burden will go down, since married taxpayers filing jointly pay
lower taxes on combined income
than single people with the same taxable income.
This would result in a
lower monthly retirement payment
than the single annuity option, but your
spouse would continue to receive a portion of your retirement income after your death.
If the combined monthly amount you and your
spouse would be required to pay under Pay As You Earn is
lower than the combined monthly amount you and your
spouse would pay under a 10 - year Standard Repayment Plan, you and your
spouse are eligible for Pay As You Earn.
If you have a
spouse, partner or kids in a
lower tax bracket
than you, consider a prescribed rate loan strategy whereby the higher - income
spouse or partner loans funds to the
lower - income
spouse or partner to invest at the record
low prescribed rate, which is at one per cent until at least March 31.
If your
spouse is your sole beneficiary and is more
than 10 years younger
than you, an alternate calculation, which may result in
lower RMD amounts, should be used.
Generally speaking, families where one person is a high - earner and the other
spouse is a
low - earner or not in the workforce fare better
than couples who make similar incomes.
Can the family court award property to one
spouse at a
lower value
than the other
spouse is willing to take it for?
In a divorce, a
spouse with a lot of wealth may try to hide assets in order to make their income appear
lower than it is, and so that these assets will not be a part of the Tennessee equitable distribution award.
the
spouse derives a significant portion of income from dividends, capital gains or other sources that are taxed at a
lower rate
than employment or business income or that are exempt from tax; and
the
spouse lives in a country that has effective rates of income tax that are significantly
lower than those in Canada;
Spousal riders are less expensive
than taking out a whole separate policy for your
spouse, but that's because they offer
lower coverage.
If the retired
spouse dies, those payments may be reduced for the survivor — survivor benefits are often much
lower than retiree benefits — while many of the ongoing expenses remain.
These two important riders make it possible for an applicant to add their
spouse and children to their term insurance thus creating a family life insurance plan at a
lower cost
than separate policies.
Since a surviving
spouse's living costs tend to be higher
than half the living costs of two people, many financial advisors and planners choose an income payment somewhere above 50 %, though it should be noted that
lower payments generally mean a higher death benefit.
If the loan principal amount is
lower than the policy's death benefit at the time that a payout is made, your secondary beneficiary (for example, business partner or
spouse) will receive the difference after the primary beneficiary (the lender) receives its payout.
Like an immediate annuity if you select the option that lasts for you and your
spouse's lifetime, the payment is slightly
lower than the straight lifetime option.
On measures of psychological adjustment, unhappily married adults had significantly
lower levels of global happiness, were more likely to show symptoms of depression, and had a
lower sense of personal mastery and
lower self - esteem
than happy
spouses.
They also had
lower average household incomes
than unhappy
spouses who stayed married.
Happily married
spouses who ended up divorced five years later were significantly less happy, showed more symptoms of depression, had less sense of personal mastery and
lower self - esteem, five years later,
than happy
spouses who avoided divorce.
In the collaborative process, the financial professional works with both
spouses, usually at a
lower rate
than the attorneys, to fill out the required financial affidavit and ensure the required disclosure.
For example, ending a «high conflict» marriage - one where one
spouse fears domestic violence - requires very different steps
than ending a «
low conflict» marriage - one where unhappiness drives one or both
spouses toward dissolution.
Under the old tax law, because the
spouse receiving alimony or spousal maintenance is usually in a
lower tax bracket after a divorce, more money stays with the divorcing couple rather
than going to the Federal Government.
In this study, those who lived with their eventual
spouse before having a mutual and clear commitment to marry reported
lower levels of marital quality
than those who waited until after planning marriage or getting married to move in together.
If neither social insurance record satisfies the qualifying conditions, or if the rate of pension payable is
lower than the person was getting before they re-married or entered the second civil partnership, the person will receive the pension they were getting after the death of their first
spouse or civil partner.
In Egypt, there was a significant interaction between relationship type and participant sex, Wilks» Lambda =.75, F (2, 36) = 6.13, p =.005, partial eta squared =.25, such that whereas women reported similar ideals for communal strength towards
spouses and mothers and less towards best friends, men reported
lower communal strength towards
spouses and best friends
than toward mothers.
If you are the
lower earning
spouse and are curious about whether your ex-
spouse's benefits are more
than 50 % higher
than your benefits, contact the Social Security Administration who will provide you with the benefit amounts to which you may be entitled after first verifying your relationship to your ex-
spouse.
The mean mental health summary score of widowed persons in age heterogamous unions is 2.4 points
lower than that of widowed persons who were previously married to
spouses who are similar in age.
Consistent with this explanation,
spouses in our study, on average, shared 19 % of their possible selves, a much
lower estimate
than observed when people appraised shared goals (more
than 60 % shared goals reported by Meegan & Goedereis).
There are many reasons why your
spouse may show a higher or
lower level of affection
than yourself, including the quality of your attachment styles, communication, individual coping skills, and health status.
Partnered men show both high PRQ and NRQ
than do partnered women, suggesting that more older men
than women experience ambivalent feelings toward their
spouse or partner and more women
than men have relationships of indifferent quality, with relatively
low costs and relatively
low benefits.