survivor benefit
This is a Social Security payment to the widow or widower of a worker who has died. Its rules are different from the rules for a spouse of a living worker.
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- spousal benefit
This is a Social Security payment that can go to the husband or wife of a worker who is already collecting retirement pay. It lets a spouse collect based on the worker's record instead of their own.
- Survivorship bias
Judging by the winners still around and forgetting the losers that vanished.
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