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Survivors Death Pension: Surviving spouses and unmarried children under 18 (age 23 if attending a VA-approved school, or any age if permanently disabled before 18) of deceased veterans may be eligible for pension benefits it the veteran served 90 days or more on active duty during wartime.
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.