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Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits.
Today’s Social Security question is about eligibility for spouses and children who are not US citizens.
Question: Is it true that if you marry a foreigner with children and you are their primary means of support, they can’t collect child benefits and your spouse can’t collect child-in-care spousal benefits.
Answer: The fact that your spouse is foreign doesn’t affect the children’s rights to benefits or your spouse’s right to child-in-care spousal benefits, provided that they are legally residing in the U.S.
My weekly Social Security column appears on PBS NEWSHOUR’s website.
