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Ex-spouses who remarry are entitled to benefits only if they remarry after age 60 (age 50 if they are disabled). Remarrying before you turn 60 will disqualify you from potential survivor benefits.
It was not especially uncommon for young women in Arkansas to marry Confederate pensioners; in 1937 the state passed a law stating that women who married Civil War veterans would not be eligible for a widow's pension. The law was later changed in 1939 to state that widows born after 1870 were not eligible for pensions.
“Widows, widowers and surviving ex-spouses can collect survivor benefits as early as age 60 but are subject to benefit reductions and earnings restrictions if they continue to work,” Sherwood ...
Elaine Silverberg, a 73-year-old widow, has been fighting JPMorgan Chase for 13 years over their refusal to pay her late husband's estimated $331 monthly pension.
In the United Kingdom, the Widow’s Pension was discontinued in 2001. [5] A widow's pension can be paid to childless widows aged 45 or over, or to those whose husband died before September 4, 2001. [6] When it was offered, for a woman to qualify, her husband had to have paid 25 flat-rate contributions before April 6, 1975. [1]
The widow had to be receiving Child Benefit for a child who was either hers and her late husband's, or a child the husband was entitled to Child Benefit for before his death, or a child of hers by an earlier marriage which ended by her being widowed, if she was living with her late husband when he died, or she was expecting a child of her late husband's (a child conceived by artificial ...
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At the time a pension was unusual for widows of presidents, and Mary Lincoln had alienated many congressmen, making it difficult for her to gain Congress's approval. [2] After her oldest son, Robert's marriage in 1868, Mary took Thomas (Tad) to Europe where he attended school and she traveled, sometimes with him as her companion.