Tag: family budget
It was hard to miss the news last year that four out of 10 people couldn’t come up with $400 if they had an emergency. The coronavirus is that emergency – on steroids. A wave of new surveys asking Americans about their personal finances reveal the depth of a crisis that has suddenly befallen untold…
The brief’s key findings are: Social Security’s spousal and survivor (“family”) benefits were designed in the 1930s for a one-earner married couple. Today, family benefits contribute less to retirement income because most married women work, and many households are headed by single mothers. Single mothers who were never married are not eligible for family benefits,…