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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If a 90 year old guy marries his 40 year old male caregiver, does he get the guy’s social security check upon death of the elder?


8 posted on 06/30/2015 9:23:12 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

YES HE DOES!

The United States government provided Civil War veterans with a pension for themselves and their spouses for life, as well as their orphaned offspring. The last widows pension payment was made in 2003, today two Civil War pensions are paid monthly to two surviving children of Civil War vets. Both are at deaths door, but are still getting paid.

The Civil War ended 138 years before the last widows payment was made and has been over for 150 years, yet we still pay two pensions.


14 posted on 06/30/2015 10:12:46 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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