Social Security Benefits

Learn about the definition for this legal term.

What is Social Security Benefits?

A divorced spouse can collect on her former spouse's social security benefits, to add to her own benefits, if the marriage lasted at least 10 years or longer, even if the spouses have remarried. The applicant must be 62 or older.

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