Social Security Q&A: Will My Spousal Benefit Reduce My Husband’s Retirement Benefit? – Forbes

Laurence-Kotlikoff_avatar_1405351517-400x400Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits.

Today’s Social Security question is about the relationship between different Social Security benefits as well as Medicare.

Question: I currently receive benefits under the civil service program with the federal government and don’t have enough paid into Social Security. My husband retired on disability and started on regular Social Security when he turned 66. I will be 65 in a few months, and the Social Security Administration told me I could get Medicare under my husband. Will I have to sign up for Social Security to get

Source: Social Security Q&A: Will My Spousal Benefit Reduce My Husband’s Retirement Benefit? – Forbes

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