RetiredAndLovingIt
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
My daughter texted me today and said her dad was asking for the date of our Marriage and Divorce since he was filing for his retirement which I take to be his Social Security. I told her that I had no idea but I'd look tomorrow if I got a chance. We were married in another country and I suspect the next question will be what's my SS number which I absolutely will not give him. I'm assuming that Social Security maybe checks my record as well as his to ensure he gets the maximum benefit and I suspect I'm the higher earner. Frankly it annoys me that he has the nerve to ask our daughter who he's always treated poorly since both her and her brother (my son) refuse to allow him to bring his lunatic drug addict step daughter with 5 DUI's into their homes. I know it sounds childish but I'm tempted to blow him off and make him do the work to figure it out on his own, he certainly never went out of his way to make my life easy with the sporadic child support payments that I got. We were married for more than ten years and he's a little over a year older than me and did remarry and his wife died a couple of years ago which I think makes him eligible to claim off my benefit. I have not reached my full retirement age and am not claiming my SS yet. I rarely see him and we can talk civilly when we do see each other but this is just asking too much.
So rant over and can anyone tell me if these are normal questions for social security to ask about an ex spouse? If it is, I have all the information that I will need when it becomes time to file for my benefit and I won't need to ask him for any information. Meantime he can go dig through his own divorce paperwork to get the information that he's looking for.
Oh one last thing, our divorce was very clean cut, he kept (and spent) all his retirement accounts and I kept mine and it was all spelled out in the divorce agreement at the time.
So rant over and can anyone tell me if these are normal questions for social security to ask about an ex spouse? If it is, I have all the information that I will need when it becomes time to file for my benefit and I won't need to ask him for any information. Meantime he can go dig through his own divorce paperwork to get the information that he's looking for.
Oh one last thing, our divorce was very clean cut, he kept (and spent) all his retirement accounts and I kept mine and it was all spelled out in the divorce agreement at the time.