Spouses with no work history can still claim Social Security benefits in certain situations. The spousal benefit can be as much as 50% of the retired worker's primary insurance amount. Spouses cannot ...

25% of respondents incorrectly marked this statement as false: "If I have a spouse, he or she can receive benefits from my record even if he or she has no individual earnings history." 30% of ...

Senate Democrats are breathless about Americans losing government healthcare, but they’re dead set against expanding private coverage. They’re attacking a plan to help gig workers get benefits—merely ...

Social Security is a critical source of income for millions of retired workers. But very few Americans know exactly how their retirement benefit is calculated. While memorizing the process is ...

Over 70% of workers said they’d switch companies for better work-family benefits, in a 2024 Ovia Health Survey. Five valuable resources can empower companies to benchmark, improve, and invest in their ...

A few months ago, when Annika Cha adopted her rescue puppy Ollie, she tapped into her company’s “pawternity” policy. Cha, 26, and based in St. Paul, Minn., is an account manager at 9Sail, a digital ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Should independent contractors get employment benefits? The question has fueled decades of legal and political battles — and it might finally be coming to an end for the roughly 58 million people who ...

The state Supreme Court ruled for disabled workers this week in a pair of workmen’s compensation cases that upheld the payment of benefits awarded to workers years after they retired voluntarily with ...

If you’ve returned to work after taking time off for the holidays and noticed some things missing, you’re probably right. President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending package trimmed company ...

Social Security spousal benefits are a common source of confusion among retired workers. Nationwide Retirement Institute's 2025 Social Security Survey revealed the following: Those knowledge gaps ...