spousal

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So, if you never claimed spousal benefits and the agency therefore did not switch you to survivor benefits, that benefit is unaffected by your own early claiming.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

The agency typically automatically switches a person’s spousal benefits to survivor benefits if he or she was already receiving spousal benefits.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Acting as Val’s agent under the power of attorney, he signed to change the beneficiaries to the grandchildren and waive Val’s spousal rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The family’s attempt to designate 36 grandchildren as beneficiaries was rejected due to issues with a spousal waiver.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Thou to thy spousal universe Art Husband, she thy Wife and Church; Who in most dusk and vidual curch, Her Lord being hence, Keeps her cold sorrows by thy hearse.

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis