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Ask Larry: Is My Mom’s Widow’s Benefit Rate Correct?

17 Jun 2017 | Larry Kotlikoff

By Laurence Kotlikoff

Originally posted at Forbes, June 2017

Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits.

Today’s column examines widow(er) benefit amount, potential effects of foreign pensions, divorced spousal benefits, the availability of spousal benefits and Medicare. Larry Kotlikoff is the founder and president of Economic Security Planning, a company that markets Maximize My Social Security, a Social Security benefits calculator referred to in this post. MORE

John C. Goodman is President of the Goodman Institute and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute. His books include the soon-to-be-published updated edition of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, the widely acclaimed A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, and New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First. The Wall Street Journal and National Journal, among other media, have called him the “Father of Health Savings Accounts.”

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