Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the United States on June 26, 2015. Federal legalization of same …-sex marriage expands the pool of individuals potentially eligible for spousal Social Security benefits to the estimated 4 percent … potential impact of the expansion of marriage rights to same-sex couples on Social Security. We primarily use data from the 2011 …

increase in the likelihood of being divorced of 11.7 percent at ten years of marriage. For people between the ages of 35 and 55 …

The Social Security program, like the federal income tax system, is not marriage neutral. In the income tax literature … couple, in effect, faces a marriage penalty (marriage subsidy). Similarly, provisions in Social Security lead to marriage … subsidies or penalties. In this paper, we examine marriage penalties associated with Social Security's child-in-care benefits …