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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I agree, and there is no limit on the number of ex-spouses who can collect. As long as the marriage lasted 10 years, the ex-spouses can receive a Social Security check.
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10 years can feel like a lifetime when you pick the wrong spouse as I did with my 1st go around. Also to be put into the equation of FAIRNESS and SOCIAL goodness and stability......back in the 1940s to around 1970, women usually could NOT get a high PAYING job. Their wealth ceiling required them to be nurses or teachers. Many HAD to take waitress jobs if they did NOT have a College education, which MOST did NOT.
.......Fortunately today women have achieved greater parity with men (NOT 100%). Those PAST years were DARK, DIFFICULT decades for many women my mother's age. Let us hope that the FUTURE does NOT have situations like "The Handmaid's Tale".