[Excellence]

If you are the divorced spouse of a worker who dies, you could get benefits just the same as a widow or widower, provided that your marriage lasted 10 years or more.

Benefits paid to you as a surviving divorced spouse who meets the age or disability requirement as a widow or widower won't affect the benefit rates for other survivors getting benefits on the worker's record.

http://www.ssa.gov/survivorplan/ifyou3.htm

[usconservative]

If you are the divorced spouse of a worker who dies, you could get benefits just the same as a widow or widower, provided that your marriage lasted 10 years or more.

I did not know that. Doesn't change our circumstances from a taxable income perspective though as I've been the sole breadwinner all these years now ...