{"id":331086,"date":"2026-01-13T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/a-simple-social-security-rule-that-could-add-800-to-your-monthly-checks"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:28:09","slug":"a-simple-social-security-rule-that-could-add-800-to-your-monthly-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/a-simple-social-security-rule-that-could-add-800-to-your-monthly-checks","title":{"rendered":"A Easy Social Safety Rule That May Add $800 to Your Month-to-month Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Disaster Accident\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/workers\/images\/width=1920\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/02230217\/shutterstock_171626120-scaled.jpg?s=3a8723739cb36a9fd29de11fdfc0129bf787a42343c4718508094e8e39dc5e27\" alt=\"Senior woman with money\"><figcaption>Sean Locke Photography \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You might assume that when you file for Social Security, the government automatically gives you the biggest check possible. That\u2019s a dangerous assumption. For millions of married couples, relying solely on their own work record could mean missing out on substantial income. There is a specific provision \u2014 often called the \u201cspousal benefit\u201d \u2014 that allows a lower-earning spouse to collect checks\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/a-simple-social-security-rule-that-could-add-to-your-monthly-checks\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Locke Photography \/ Shutterstock.com You might assume that when you file for Social Security, the government automatically gives you the biggest check possible. That\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4557],"tags":[92,1913,227,9135,221,9136],"class_list":["post-331086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","tag-disaster-accident","tag-federal-government","tag-online-services-nec","tag-sean-locke","tag-shutterstock","tag-social-security-in-the-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331088,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331086\/revisions\/331088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}