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Benefits are reduced for surviving widows and widowers who start claiming their late spouse’s benefits before reaching the full retirement age, currently 67.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

A lot of those old trusts, notably A/B trusts, have rigid language limiting how widows and widowers can control family money after their spouse died.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

Widows and widowers talk about the pain of the "firsts" without their late partner - anniversaries, birthdays, major life events.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

Widows and widowers miss spouses who died during the height of the pandemic.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2024

“Think of how many orphans you’d be leaving behind, how many widowers, a mother in luto for the rest of her life.”

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez