survivor
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Your friend must be unmarried when she applies, unless she remarried after age 60, in which case she can still receive survivor benefits.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Retirement benefits and survivor benefits are separate programs, and they each have their own rules if claimed before full retirement age.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Enough even to remember beating England, with the scrum-half the only survivor from an 18-17 success in Grenoble eight years ago.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
Every cancer survivor would be sequenced at diagnosis and surveilled every few months.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The Reverend the sole survivor in a company of dead men who have marched along beside him all his life since then.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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