Yes, if you both earned enough credits to qualify for Social Security, then you can each collect your own benefits. To qualify for Social Security retirement benefits, you must have earned 40 credits (approximately 10 years of work). You can actually collect your own benefit as early as age 62, but you won't receive your full benefit until you reach your full retirement age. Once you are at your full retirement age, you can choose to collect either your own benefit, or the spousal benefit, whichever is higher.
Yes
You can generally still collect unemployment while collecting social security, unless it is social security disability...even then you still might be able to. I worked for the Unemployment Office & just an FYI, they do not know if you are on social security and are unable to check, so if you do not say anything, they will never know.
Not automatically they are two separate issues. For a disabled child to collect SSI benefits they must qualify under the Social Security requirements. Visit Social Security Online for complete information.
100%. You collect your full benefits until you die.
No. They are separate, independent programs that are not affect by the other. You can be eligible for both at the same time as long as you qualify for each of them.
Neither relies on the other for eligibility. You have to qualify for each of them as they are separate programs with their own rules.
yes
No, Pennsylvania is not one of the fourteen states that taxes Social Security benefits.
Collecting Social Security would not interfere with your compensation disability
yes.earnings over a certain limit,changed each year, will reduce your payments up till your retirement age. your benefits will be recomputed at retirment age
can you collect social security disability due to 2 knee repalcements
Yes.
Yes, if you were fired or laid off you can collect unemployment & it doesn't matter if you're drawing Social Security.