“It irritates me that they can just willy nilly change the rules.”
Me, too. We saved for retirement for nearly 50 years. All of our planning was for a stable economy with 3% inflation. Then Biden & Co absolutely wrecked that.
Who the heck eliminated the “Spousal Rule”? The article doesn’t say how it got changed. Was it a law that got passed?
At least they didn’t wipe the rule out for everybody. My wife and I are grandfathered in, but her SS is half of mine (because she worked at the school district for 20 years and has a pension), so she would be the big winner if I croak first. If she goes first, I get no benefit.
But lucky her! Free of me at last and doubles her SS income! (if there’s not another rule that prohibits that because she has a county government pension).