Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column examines widow's benefits, the effects of divorce on ...

Losing a spouse is an emotional and challenging experience, and it often brings financial concerns to the forefront. Social Security benefits can provide critical support to widows, helping them ...

PeopleImages / Getty Images I get a lot of emails from women who have questions about the widows benefits they are already getting. Or they have questions about the widows benefits they think they ...

Image source: Social Security Administration. Social Security provides vital retirement benefits for workers after their careers end. But the program goes beyond helping just workers by offering ...

Widows benefits are benefits available to the surviving spouse of deceased workers. If the worker claimed Social Security early, this will also reduce the maximum widows benefit available to their ...

kali9 / Getty Images Sometimes, when I write a column about a certain topic, that column seems to generate more questions than it answers. That certainly was the case with a column I wrote about ...