Can I draw my ex husbands social security benefits?

Answer 1

If you divorced after at least 10 years of marriage, you can collect retirement benefits on your former spouse's Social Security record if you are at least age 62 and your former spouse is entitled to or receiving benefits. If you remarry before age 60, you generally cannot collect benefits on your former spouse's record unless your later marriage ends.

Answer 2

I was told by social security case worker that I could draw my benefits or his, which ever was the most. You need to be married to him at least 10 years. It is the same thing as being vested. Call and speak to a representative, because you can. Even if he has remarried. For those of you who are saying leave him alone, it will do absolutely nothing to his benefits by causing them to decrease. And if it makes any of you ex wives feel better, I never did ask for alimony from him. It will not do anything to any benefits that you will receive or your children either.

Answer 3

Don't pay any attention to the ones on here that say you can't! You need to talk to a Social Security representative to find out how it applies in your case. This is something that you are entitled to if you have been married 10 years, are 62, and not remarried.

Get the facts from Social Security, not from Yahoo!

Answer 4

Please contact your Social Security office and get the pamphlet "What every woman should know".... In a nutshell, if you and hubby were married at least 10 years and you have not remarried, you are entitled to a certain percentage of his benefits. What will happen; at the time you apply for SocSec benefits, they will do the math for you. If you would receive more money by using your own benefits, that is what you will get - if more by ex-hubby's benefits, that is what you will get. They figure it out for you. I think you will find the pamphlet very informative.

Answer 5

Wait a minute people, before you bash an ex wife should you not know the circumstances of each first. I was a stay at home mom of 3 and that was what was decided by that ex husband. After years of keeping the home nice and having dinner on the table and kids clean, he shacked up with a ***** half his age and got her pregnant. Of course after the baby was born and she left his **** he wanted to come back home. What do the haters say to that. I am left with a broken heart, home and no money. Glad your life is so comfy that you can say that, mine sure is not

Answer 6

If you call the SS office they will tell you that so long as you were married to him at least 10 years you can draw off his SS and it WILL NOT affect his, his current wife's or his minor children's benefits should they need to draw on him also. And another thing, if you worked also and drawing off his won't be much they can combine yours and his, depending on the amount you'd draw. Even if you've remarried you can draw off the one that will pay you the most in benefits.

Answer 7

My parents were married for 15 years and then divorced. He remarried and she did not. She was able to get some of his social security benefits. You definitely need to find out.

Answer 8

That is true. When a couple gets married and then divorced and the one gets remarried the person does not get the others social security. I am remarried and am not entititled to my ex's s.s. My ex was remarried and he died and his wife is also not entitled to his s.s. because they would have to be married for 10 years for his wife to get his s.s. They were only married for six months when my ex died. I am very glad that she can't get it.

Answer 9

You can in certain cases. It depends on how long you were married, whether you are re-married and your age now. You probably need to contact Social Security or you can check it out on the web.
www.ssa.gov.
I had an ex sister in law that drew from her first husband after she divorced my brother.

Answer 10

a person from social security can tell you call them and find out