On Mar 15, 12:28*pm, jmcquown > wrote:
> On 3/15/2013 12:12 PM, Nancy2 wrote:
>
> >> 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."
>
> > N.
>
> I don't think you're understanding the discussion. *He didn't say
> anything about quarter hours earned. *He said if you're married to one
> woman for ten years, divorce her then are married to another woman for
> 10 years, they can each collect as a spouse.
>
> Jill

Jill, I know what he was talking about. The SS, the last time I
talked to them, termed the required married time for a spouse to be
able to collect on a former spouse's earnings, they used quarter
(meaning quarter of a year), not years, as in 10 years. Forty
quarters is the same as 10 years, but the SS says "quarters" instead
of years. Clear now?

N.