Q: I recently read one of your columns and found something I thought may be misleading. When one owner of a property held as ...

Although many states don’t allow collection agencies to target a spouse or a surviving spouse with medical debts, some debt collectors may try because when people are grieving they tend to be ...

If you're a surviving spouse, you may receive full benefits at your full retirement age. However, you can receive a reduced ...

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Surviving spouses of fallen service members were honored at the annual Gold Star Spouses Day ceremony at Queens Borough Hall.

In the year that a spouse dies, the surviving spouse can continue filing taxes jointly with their deceased partner, assuming they don't remarry before year-end. With a dependent child, you can ...

And that's not the only income cut a surviving spouse might face. If both partners are receiving Social Security, one of those checks will disappear when a spouse dies. The remaining partner will ...

Physical health and emotional health corelate with mental health. If you are consumed with grief or anxiety or dealing with a ...

“[If the] beneficiary, [is also] 75, [they] could continue to use the Uniform Life Table to calculate their RMDs,” Gjersten says, as the surviving spouse’s life expectancy is used in the ...

It's of course very difficult to lose your spouse — and some survivors may also have to deal with the shock of higher taxes after their wife or husband dies. That's because after a partner's ...

That's because after a partner's death, surviving spouses may face a "survivor's penalty" due to the shift from married filing jointly to single filing status, potentially leading to higher taxes ...