Social Security spousal benefits

How Redistributive Is the U.S Social Security System Today?

• October 25, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Administrative data link, benefit claiming, Demographic trends, Disparities, Social Security, Social Security spousal benefits, Survivor benefit

This project will quantify the extent of current redistribution within the United States Social Security program, incorporating mortality, marriage, and claiming age differentials by minority status, lifetime earnings, and marital status.

The Effect of Racial Disparities on Entitlement to Social Security Survivor Benefit and Widow Poverty

• October 15, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Social Security spousal benefits

When Social Security survivor benefits exceed a surviving spouse’s own retired-worker benefits, it helps keep many surviving spouses out of poverty. Yet, access to survivor benefits differs by race by virtue of differences in marital histories, as well as in…

Public Pension Design and Household Retirement Decisions: A Comparison of the United States and Germany

• June 17, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• benefit claiming, Financial well-being, International, Retirement, Social Security, Social Security spousal benefits

2018 Key Findings

• July 15, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Administrative data link, Affordable Care Act, Behavioral economics, benefit claiming, Cognition, Financial well-being, Health and Retirement Study, Health reform, International, Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Life-cycle model, Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortality trends, OASDI trust funds, Older workers, Payroll taxes, pensions, Program interaction, retirement savings, Second career, Social Security, Social Security program communications, Social Security reform, Social Security spousal benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Totalization, Veterans

Social Security Household Benefits: Measuring Program Knowledge

• December 10, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Social Security program communications, Social Security spousal benefits

Social Security Household Benefits: Measuring Program Knowledge

• November 28, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Social Security program communications, Social Security spousal benefits

Social Security offers two types of benefits for spouses: spousal and survivor benefits. Regardless of his or her own work history, a married individual can claim spousal Social Security benefits, which are equal to half of his or her spouse’s…

2017 Key Findings

• August 29, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Affordable Care Act, Financial well-being, Health, Life-cycle model, Older workers, Program interaction, retirement savings, Social Security reform, Social Security spousal benefits, Veterans

Marriage-related Policies in an Estimated Life-cycle Model of Households’ Labor Supply and Savings for Two Cohorts

• June 14, 2018
• Labor Supply, Life-cycle model, Social Security spousal benefits

Exploring the Social Security Benefit Implications of Same-Sex Marriage

• June 14, 2018
• OASDI trust funds, Program interaction, Social Security spousal benefits

Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the United States on June 26, 2015. Federal legalization of same-sex marriage expands the pool of individuals potentially eligible for spousal Social Security benefits to the estimated 4 percent of the population that is…

Exploring the Social Security Benefit Implications of Same-Sex Marriage

• June 14, 2018
• OASDI trust funds, Program interaction, Social Security spousal benefits

Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the United States on June 26, 2015. Federal legalization of same-sex marriage expands the pool of individuals potentially eligible for spousal Social Security benefits to the estimated 4 percent of the population that is…