Your participation aside, you might be eligible forspousal Social Security benefitsif you're married and your spouse pays Social Security taxes. However, if you also have a pension, benefits received through your spouse might be reduced under government pension offset (GPO) rules. Typically, Social...
and today the benevolent funds offers assistance to two categories of beneficiary. The first are teachers whose spouse dies, or the spouses of teachers who die before retirement, and a death grant of €2,000 is paid in such cases.