Categories:
- Retirement Insurance Benefits
- Entitlement to Retirement Insurance Benefit
- Amount of Retirement Insurance Benefit
- When are retirement benefits NOT payable (or only partly payable)?
- Do your retirement insurance benefits end when you die?
- When is a spouse entitled to spouse's insurance benefits on the worker's Social Security record?
- Spouse Defined
- Common-Law Marriage
- How does a divorce affect your marital status?
- What is the effect of violating State-imposed restrictions on remarriage?
- If there are several conflicting marriages, which one is valid?
- When are you entitled to divorced spouse's insurance benefits?
- What does having a "child in care" mean?
- What does "parental control and responsibility" mean?
- What does "personal services" mean?
- When does a parent NOT meet the in-care requirements?
- Can a parent meet the in-care requirements while temporarily separated from a child?
- Can a parent meet the in-care requirements during a separation from a child because of employment?
- Separation Due to Child's School Attendance
- Can a parent meet the in-care requirements when separated from a child because of illness?
- Spouse's Insurance Benefit
- When are spouse's insurance benefits not payable?
- When do spouse's and divorced spouse's insurance benefits end?
- Who is entitled to child's insurance benefits?
- Who is a "child" for Social Security purposes?
- When can a dependent grandchild or step-grandchild be considered the grandparent's "child"?
- Legitimacy of a Child
- Legitimated Children
- Can a child NOT meeting the State law test in section 326 or 327 be considered the child of the worker?
- Legally Adopted Children
- Inheritance Rights of 'Equitably Adopted' Children
- Stepchild-Stepparent Relationship
- Can a child qualify as the stepchild of an invalid marriage?
- Does a child have to be dependent on the worker to qualify for benefits?
- When is a child presumed "dependent"?
- When is a child dependent upon a stepparent?
- When is a child dependent upon a grandparent or step-grandparent?
- When A Child Must Be Dependent Upon Insured Parent
- Amount of Child's Insurance Benefit
- When are child's insurance benefits NOT payable (or only partly payable)?
- Termination of Child's Insurance Benefits
- Can a child be re-entitled to benefits?
- When do benefits end for a child who is attending elementary or secondary school?
- What is an "educational institution"?
- What does "full-time" mean?
- When are benefits paid to a child who is not attending school?
- Special Monthly Payment at 72
- Can special monthly payments be made for the months before the application was filed?
- Special Payments and Government Pensions
There are 9 Comments
Working during retirement
Here is my question. My husband wants to go ahead and retire he just turned 62. He also wants to work he makes only about $30,000 a year and he has not always made that much. His check would be
around $1200 a year. So how would this work in paying taxes. The lady at SS told us they would hold his first 7 checks what I want to know is then what does he get to keep the next 5. Does he have to pay income tax on those checks we just have not been able to get any clear answers. Thanks if anybody can hlep us.
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my husband retired mid year.what he had earn at the start of the year was earnbefore he retired .he was told he could not work but for only 19 hrs a week for the rest of the year. he complied with this rules. now he has to pay back 1700.00 back because they say he earn more then what they told him.how do they figure this
Appeals
You may want to look into an appeal here : http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10041.html
retire before age 60
my dad is 59 now...and he wants to get retire now because he is having some health problem.also he is married and have a 12 year old child with disabilities..he makes about 25,000 a year and has more than 35 years working.can he get retire now at the age?.
How are benefits figured?
I plan to retire from my career job at age 63. I want to continue to work at a different job that pays less. Will my benefits be reduced if I work for the next 2 years at a reduced salary?
Retirement begins at age 62
The earliest a person can start receiving Social Security retirement benefits is age 62. Retiring at age 62 means reduced retirement benefits. See this page for details :
http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/ageincrease.htm
Lower wages salary may reduce your benefit
Yes, a lower salary may reduce your retirement benefit a bit (or more if you only have a few years of work).
Retirement benefits are calculated, in part, by looking at your 35 highest years of salary (indexed for inflation).
See here for details : http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10070.html :
Survivor Benefits when my spouse dies
My husband is in hospice care right now. I am afraid I will not be able to survive on my benefits. I don't know how to find out my benefits upon his death. I have never worked outside the home.
He get 1045.00 now and I receive 450.00
Survivor benefits for widows and widowers
Here is an excerpt from http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10084.html#3 :
How much will I receive?
The benefit amount is based on the earnings of the person who died. The more the worker paid into Social Security, the greater your benefits will be.
Social Security uses the deceased worker’s basic benefit amount and calculates what percentage survivors are entitled to. The percentage depends on the survivors’ ages and relationship to the worker. Here are the most typical situations: