Hua Hin. Located 281 kilometres south of Bangkok, Hua Hin is the oldest and most popular beach resort town of Thailand. Hua Hin became popular as a rainy season retreat in the 1920's with the construction of the railway line from Bangkok.
Spousal Social Security benefits are retroactive and can be paid via a lump sum when the file-and-suspend strategy is used. When this option is used, the couple can retroactively receive benefits from the time of filing.
What benefits can widows and widowers receive from Social Security? Widows and widowers are entitled to receive survivors benefits from Social Security if their spouse worked long enough paying Social Security payroll taxes to qualify. The amount of time the deceased spouse must have worked depends on age at death. But no one needs to have earned more than 40 Social Security credits -- 10 years of work for most people -- for a surviving spouse to claim widowers or widows benefits. In cases involving minor children, working just a year and a half out of the most recent three years can be enough to guarantee benefits for a surviving spouse caring for those children.