If you are widowed in California & receive retirement income from?

your city job, why can't you draw social security from your spouse?

Public Comments

1. You need to look at your spouse's Social Security Statement to see what benefit is available. A sample statement is at: http://www.ssa.gov/mystatement/sample2.htm In this sample, the surviving spouse is entitled to a benefit of $1,344 a month, if the spouse started receiving the benefit at full retirement age. The full retirement age is shown in a table on this page: http://www.ssa.gov/mystatement/survivorchartred.htm In no case can a surviving spouse receive a benefit before age 60. Judging from your avatar, you are much too young.