Well, taking your spouse as example, after effectively qualify, your spouse would receive a monthly payment of up to one half of your full retirement benefit amount. Best of all, those payments won't affect your retirement benefit.
And what about my spouse getting qualify by her own? How that affects the amount?
Ok. If that's the case and your spouse qualify by own record, we'll pay that amount first, and then the other ones.
And another question, please. Will those spouse benefits decrease my own retirement benefits?