{
  "id": 17525,
  "title": "My girlfriend is 62. Can she claim her late husband’s full Social Security benefit — or does she have to wait?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/01/my-girlfriend-is-62-can-she-claim-her-late-husbands-full-social",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-01T22:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MarketWatch",
    "slug": "marketwatch",
    "url": "https://www.marketwatch.com/story/my-girlfriend-is-62-can-she-claim-her-late-husbands-full-social-security-benefit-or-does-she-have-to-wait-315c0fa1?mod=mw_rss_topstories"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "“Her husband passed away 10 years ago. They had been married for more than 20 years.”",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "MarketWatch",
        "title": "If Social Security’s funding crisis is the elephant in the room, this is the mouse everyone has overlooked. You have been warned.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/01/if-social-securitys-funding-crisis-is-the-elephant-in-the-room-this",
        "published": "2026-08-01T21:15:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}