Financial planners should be aware of Social Security program rules unique to widows approaching retirement.This paper examines these rules and their implications for benefit claiming strategies, complementing recent studies on Social Security claiming decisions

This article provides policymakers with context for understanding past and future policy discussions regarding Social Security widow benefits. Using data from surveys, projections from a microsimulation model, and recent research, it examines three types of benefits—those for aged widows,...

Using the Social Security Administration's MINT (Modeling Income in the Near Term) model, this paper calculates the marginal returns to work near retirement, as measured by the increase in benefits associated with an additional year of employment at the end of an individual's work life. With...

Using new data from the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation, I estimate that about 24 million individuals between the ages of 18-66 have applied for Social Security disability benefits at some point in their lives. This population is about evenly divided among those who have ever...

•First peer reviewed publication to link tourism to the Chinese Dream.•Tourism/Dream relationship contextualized by enlightened mass tourism.•Nine-cell matrix positions three tourism modes against three relationships.•Framework for investigating sustainable tourism “with Chinese...

In 2018, 1.1 million children under the age of 18 received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Children qualify for SSI if their families have limited income and assets and the children have medically-determinable conditions that result in marked and severe functional limitations. In...