spousal

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Here’s the main differentiator: Spousal benefits do not include delayed credits.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 17, 2025

Spousal benefits are available when the higher earner is still alive.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2025

Even though your husband has a company pension, consider a Spousal IRA or Roth IRA for yourself to ensure each of you has a nest egg for retirement.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2022

Spousal benefits were made available to same-sex married couples after the landmark 2013 Supreme Court decision striking down key provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2019

In this other was there found More Faith? who also in her prime of love, Spousal embraces, vitiated with Gold, Though offer'd only, by the sent conceiv'd 390 Her spurious first-born; Treason against me?

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John