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Sometimes Life, Not Social Security, Is Confusing Almost every day, I get emails from readers that include a statement along these lines: “Social Security sure is confusing.” Or, “Why did the government have to make Social Security laws so complex?” To be sure, there are more than a few rules and regulations within the Social Security program that can bewilder folks from time to time. If there weren’t, there wouldn’t be a need for this column and I’d be out of a job! But as I read some of this week’s emails, it dawned on me that sometimes it can be people’s lives that are confusing -- and that’s what leads to their problems understanding the Social Security rules that apply to them. Here is an example of one of those emails:

I am 69 years old. I used to get benefits on my first husband’s Social Security record. But then my second husband died and they switched me to higher widow’s benefits on his account. Now my first husband is dying. When he passes, can I go back to his record and get his Social Security? He made more money than my second husband. I’ve gotten different answers from different people about this. Also, I’m thinking of marr ying the man I’m living with. If I do that, will I lose my widow’s benefits from my other husbands? Or can I switch to my new husband’s Social Security? This Social Security stuff if so confusing! It seems all messed up!

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I really wanted to write back to this woman and tell her this: “Social Security isn’t messed up. But it seems to me your life is!” Of course, I didn’t do that. Her life, after all, is just her life. Who am I to judge it? But I hope you understand my point. Sometimes Social Security can seem confusing because

life can be confusing. efits from A. Then B died, so her benefits from A Let’s break down this woman’s life and how stopped and she started getting divorced widow’s Social Security’s rules deal with it and I think we’ll benefits from B. Now A is dying and he made more see that the Social Security laws make sense and money than B. So when he dies, her widow’s benthe program is not, as the lady alleged in her email, efits from B will stop and she will start getting “messed up.” widow’s benefits from A. Then boyfriend C enters First of all, the law has always said that a de- the picture. If she marries C (and remember, she is pendent wife who is at least 62 years old and who is over age 60), she can keep getting widow’s benefits divorced and who isn’t currently married and who from A because Congress doesn’t want her “living isn’t getting higher benefits on her own retirement in sin” with C. Whew! account should be able to get benefits from her ex- If everyone married just one person in his husband’s Social Security record, as long as that or her lifetime and always stayed married to that marriage lasted at least 10 years. So that’s why this person and didn’t live with “boyfriends” (or girlwoman was initially getting divorced wife’s benefits friends for that matter), then life would be simple from her first husband. Not too confusing, right? and Social Security would be simple. Alas, people And apparently, she was married to a sec- are people. And laws get complicated because peoond man for at least 10 years, but must have been ple are complicated. divorced from him, which is why she was able to go back and collect benefits from husband number one If you have a Social Security question, Tom Marin the first place. But then this second husband must genau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@ have died because she said: “... they switched me to comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Synhigher widow’s benefits on his account.” A widow’s dicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate rate is significantly higher than a wife’s rate. Once website at www.creators.com. again, not too confusing, right? It makes sense that COPYRIGHT 2015 CREATORS.COM the law provides more money to a widow than it would to a wife whose husband (or ex-husband) is still alive. Keynote Speaker: This woman went on to say that her first husband may soon die. And he made more money than her second husband so his Social Security benefit is higher. And when he dies, she will then be his Neuro Vitality Center widow (albeit a divorced widow) so she will then be (formerly Stroke Recovery Center) switched to higher widow’s benefits on his account. The law has always said that if you are due benefits on two (or more) accounts, you don’t get Social Security from all those accounts. 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