85% of all survivors receiving Social Security are women because women tend to live longer. On today’s edition of Lifetime income, Jim Puplava interviews Yolanda York about Social Security from a female perspective. Yolanda is a Public Affairs Specialist at Social Security Administration and discusses the impact on a woman’s monthly Social Security benefit due to raising a family, waiting until age 70 to draw the benefit, the financial impact of divorce, and widow’s benefits.
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