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Anna Hignojos (Annahignojos28)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:17 pm: | 
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My Mom stays in Houston and she has been with her live in boyfriend for
two years now and he is getting old enough to recieve SS. My question
is will she be able to recieve his SS if he dies or will his X-wife of
three years will get it instead? |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2003 - 5:10 am: |
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I assume you mean Social Security retirement.
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live in girlfriend has no rights to draw any benefits on her
boyfriend's account. If she marries him and lives with him long enough,
she will be able to draw. There are some states, called the "common
law" states, where living together as husband and wife and holding out
as husband and wife can in some circumstances create a marriage. South
Carolina is one of those states; I don't know the others. It is a
dangerous way to try to claim benefits. |
Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 9:38 am: |
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My
boyrfriend and I have dated for 3 years now, and we would like to get
married. He is disabled and receives Soc Sec and SSI. I have an income,
but no medical insurance. It takes everything I make to pay the bills
and I have over $10,000 owed on medical bills. How can we get married
or live together without affecting his medical benefits? We would not
be able to pay for his medication or medical care if he were to loose
those benefits. Is there anyway we can be married without him loosing
his medical benefits? It just seems unfair if we can't. We would not be
able to survive financially if we were to marry and he or I would loose
our resources. Thanks. |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 1356
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 1:49 pm: |
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There
are a lot of financial penalties to marriage that are scattered
throughout the laws, and someone needs to stop talking about them and
fix them.
It is probable that you and he will be affected in
several ways if you get married. I cannot say what all of them are,
since some will probably involve law in the state in which you live. If
I guess and guess wrong, the effect on your situation could be
catastrophic.
Sit down and talk to a local attorney and get him to work through all of the possible effects.
Take care. |
Carmen Lee (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 4:09 pm: |
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I am a 27 year old woman who lives in WI . I am currently on disability from my own records due to chronic migraines---but i hope to be better in the future and no longer need to be on disability. the issue is that my boyfriend is 32 years old---and he's on disability for severe hemophilia--he's never worked. We are worried that if we ever wanted to get married or at least even live together that it would mess up his benefits. Is this true? There is no way we could afford his blood products---which are 15,000-20,000 dollars each month.(at this time 3 sources help him pay for his blood--Medicaid/care, another govt. program and his tribe-he is part Mohican and lives on a reservation).
What can we do? I am so saddened if we could never even live together. Please help:-( |
