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Reductions to Benefits. 1  You can apply for Social Security survivor benefits as early as age 60. If you file between age 60 and your survivor full retirement age, you will receive somewhere between 71 - 99% of your deceased spouseâs basic benefit amount.
Early Eligibility Age. Currently, the EEA is 62 for retired workers and their spouses to receive retirement benefits. When the Social Security Act was first enacted in 1935 (P.L. 74-271), the earliest age to receive. retirement benefits was the FRA, 65. The first decrease in the age at which benefits are payable.