On Mar 14, 10:24*pm, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:12:05 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
>
> > wrote:
> >Maybe I'd better look into that spouse amount.
>
> > It's hard to believe that someone can get more for sitting home on
> >one's ass rather than working for 40 years. *I still think there's
> >something you're not telling us.
>
> >Did you ever make more than minimum wage in those 40 years?
>
> Maximum SS benefit is about 2500. *That means the wife could get half,
> or $1250. *The average person is collecting less than that after
> working their entire life
>
> Even better, you can have multiple wives over the years and they can
> all collect half. *You just have to be married to each of them for 10+
> years.

I think SS terms it "40 quarters," not "10 years."

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