https://community.aarp.org/t5/Social-Security/Beneficary-question/m-p/2570495#M5715 <P>Thank you very much!&nbsp;</P> Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:19:50 GMT AndreaR911460 2024-09-22T21:19:50Z https://community.aarp.org/t5/Social-Security/Beneficary-question/m-p/2570478#M5712 <P><SPAN>Hi. My mother's husband started collecting her social security after she died 6 years ago.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Recently a previous husband she is divorced from 50 years ago is now trying to file for 1/2 her social security benefits as they were married greater than 10 years. Can he collect without interfering with the widowed spouses collection? Are they both eligible?</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Thank you.</SPAN></P> Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:23:11 GMT https://community.aarp.org/t5/Social-Security/Beneficary-question/m-p/2570478#M5712 AndreaR911460 2024-09-22T20:23:11Z https://community.aarp.org/t5/Social-Security/Beneficary-question/m-p/2570480#M5713 <P>Yes - as long as all the eligibility criteria is met and the Divorced Surviving Spouses’ benefit (their own benefit) is less than what they would be getting under the Divorced Surviving Spouses benefit. &nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10084.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10084.pdf</A>&nbsp;</P><P>SEE PAGE 3&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:50:21 GMT https://community.aarp.org/t5/Social-Security/Beneficary-question/m-p/2570480#M5713 GailL1 2024-09-22T20:50:21Z https://community.aarp.org/t5/Social-Security/Beneficary-question/m-p/2570495#M5715 <P>Thank you very much!&nbsp;</P> Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:19:50 GMT https://community.aarp.org/t5/Social-Security/Beneficary-question/m-p/2570495#M5715 AndreaR911460 2024-09-22T21:19:50Z