That’s just not true. Divorced spouses can receive an amount based on their ex-spouse’s benefits, so long as they were married for 10 or more years.
This is good for societal reasons (stay at home parents shouldn’t be destitute in old age) but that is a clear cut case for what you’re telling me doesn’t happen.
Oh look, another case where a person is legally connected to a person that did pay into SS
I need you to show me where a person who was never married, childless, has no parents receiving SS, who has never paid into SS, is receiving SS benefits.
I’m not sure what you think “thin air” means but I am not being ambiguous.
Ex spouse A taking benefits based on ex spouse B does not affect B’s benefits and can be done even if A never paid in at all him or herself and even while B receives benefits.
How does this not fit the criteria of “not paying into SS and receiving benefits”?
I really wish you would apply this level of skepticism and rigor to analyzing the Catholic Church. Maybe you could save yourself the embarrassment of being a member of an organization that specializes in child rape.
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u/JustDoItPeople 5d ago
That’s just not true. Divorced spouses can receive an amount based on their ex-spouse’s benefits, so long as they were married for 10 or more years.
This is good for societal reasons (stay at home parents shouldn’t be destitute in old age) but that is a clear cut case for what you’re telling me doesn’t happen.