Widowed or divorced? Learn how to claim the right Social Security benefit for you and boost your retirement income with some ...

The loss of a loved one can be painful. The death of a wage-earner upon whom a family depends also can be financially devastating. If you're like most young or middle-aged workers, you probably think ...

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When combined, the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) can offer a steady stream of ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) pays out retirement, survivor and disability benefits to more than 70 million Americans every month. In March 2025, about 60 million of these were claiming old ...

Even military families often don’t know what benefits are available to the surviving family of an active-duty service member.

The Veteran Affairs Department is aiming to improve the process by which survivors obtain their benefits by again moving an office designed to serve a central resource for information on those ...