I couldn’t be mistaken but $1,200 a month from Soc.Sec. is pretty good. I think that’s the maximum.
$1,200 is not the max. If he was a corporate exec the last years of his working life, $1,200 is low and $600 is a low pension amount. I started drawing early at 62 years old and my SS is considerably more than his and I wasn’t a corporate executive. I just made a decent wage, not 6 figure.
It may be that his last job was government, city, county, state. The pension could be from that and by collecting that, his social security is greatly reduced.