As a married person you may be entitled to some of your spouse’s Social Security at retirement age. The factors involved for that include whether your Social Security would be more or less than what you would be entitled from your spouse. However, even after divorce, if you meet certain criteria you are still entitled to Social Security based on your ex-spouse’s Social Security. Here are the factors that are required:
Essentially you will be entitled to 50% of your ex-spouse’s Social Security benefit. If your ex-spouse passes away you could then be entitled to 100% of your ex-spouse’s Social Security benefit.
What if your ex-spouse remarries? Does this affect your Social Security benefits? The answer is no. Even if your ex-spouse was married to the other person for 10 years. The result is that both you and your ex-spouse’s other spouse or ex-spouse are entitled to the same amount of Social Security.
What can affect your Social Security benefit, however, is remarriage to another person. In that case you would lose your Social Security benefit based on your ex-spouse and could only receive the Social Security benefit you would be entitled to based on your own employment history.
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