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Social Security Benefits Demystified: Spousal vs. Survivor

  • Bias Rating

    42% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    42% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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50% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Social Security will run a specific calculation to determine benefits.
57% : In the latest installment of Ask Bob, a reader asked the following question:Marcia Mantell, author of "What's the Deal with Social Security for Women?," provided this response:At a high level, spousal benefits from Social Security are retirement benefits paid to a lower-earner spouse in certain circumstances.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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