Spouses with no work history can still claim Social Security benefits in certain situations. The spousal benefit can be as much as 50% of the retired worker's primary insurance amount. Spouses cannot ...

Senate Democrats are breathless about Americans losing government healthcare, but they’re dead set against expanding private coverage. They’re attacking a plan to help gig workers get benefits—merely ...

25% of respondents incorrectly marked this statement as false: "If I have a spouse, he or she can receive benefits from my record even if he or she has no individual earnings history." 30% of ...

A new bill in Congress calls for eliminating the retirement earnings test, which reduces Social Security for some workers who ...

Offering competitive work-family employee benefits is becoming a business necessity. In a 2024 survey, 94% of workers described family benefits as either “important” or “extremely important.” Four key ...

A few months ago, when Annika Cha adopted her rescue puppy Ollie, she tapped into her company’s “pawternity” policy. Cha, 26, and based in St. Paul, Minn., is an account manager at 9Sail, a digital ...

Social Security is a critical source of income for millions of retired workers. But very few Americans know exactly how their retirement benefit is calculated. While memorizing the process is ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Should independent contractors get employment benefits? The question has fueled decades of legal and political battles — and it might finally be coming to an end for the roughly 58 million people who ...

Social Security spousal benefits are a common source of confusion among retired workers. Nationwide Retirement Institute's 2025 Social Security Survey revealed the following: Those knowledge gaps ...