[CivilWarBrewing]

Other than for disability, why should ANY spouse not old enough to be collecting Social Security benefits receive the benefits their dead spouse was receiving?

Cuts are necessary and this cut makes sense. Someone dies and their benefit continues to be paid to their spouse? That's ridiculous.

[HarleyLady27]

From the sounds of things, by the time you get old enough to get any benefits, they will be gone, better start working more than 5 jobs a day to make sure you live in a box and not out on the street!!!

[freepertoo]

Hum. My mom is 94. My dad’s SS death benefit is all she has, which is less than 1000 a month. I think on her own she was making something like $200 a month. I wonder if this applies to her.

[Gigantor]

The married couple has their income confiscated jointly. They file taxes jointly. When the time comes they should continue to be treated as a joint partnership and recoup the money that was taken from them, as a partnership.