[John O]

The right answer, IMHO, is Social Security reform including appropriate provisions about dividing the surviving spouse benefits amongst all the surviving spouses.

Fortunately we don't have legal polygamy in this country (yet) so we don't have surviving spouses. We only have a surviving spouse.

Of course if 'gay marriage' is legalized we'll have legal polygamy within a year.

[Woodworker]

you're right. Now we have only a surviving spouse. For Gay marriage, we need to have surviving spouses (speece?). Then divide amongst them. I'll bet there will be "speece" in the background of most parties to a gay marriage.

[lucysmom]

Fortunately we don't have legal polygamy in this country (yet) so we don't have surviving spouses. We only have a surviving spouse.

If a marriage has lasted 10 years, the surviving spouses may collect if he/she has not remarried even if the deceased spouse has remarried. So yes, we can have surviving spouses.