1. Also, can I collect spousal benefits if I am still paying into my own account, either part time or full time? 2. Also, Phelps said, unemployed Missouri workers collect benefits, on average, a week longer than the national average. 3. An undetermined number of families would be eligible to collect benefits for deceased workers. 4. And the total number of jobless workers collecting benefits -- though up a bit in the most recent report -- shows a long-term decline. 5. And the gap is expected to widen each year as successive years of the baby boom generation begin collecting benefits. 6. As people live longer, they collect benefits for more years and place a bigger burden on Social Security. 7. -- Collect unemployment benefits when forced to leave a job to relocate because a partner takes a job in another part of the country. 8. After she left, she collected unemployment benefits. 9. But I have heard that the only way a husband can collect benefits is if he qualifies on his own. 10. But he decided to risk arrest to return to the United States to collect the benefits he is owed. |