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Per the Social Security Website:
Your full spouse’s benefit could be up to 50 percent of your spouse’s full retirement age amount if you are full retirement age when you take it. If you qualify for your own retirement benefit and a spouse’s benefit, we always pay your own benefit first. You cannot receive spouse’s benefits unless your spouse is receiving his or her retirement benefits (except for divorced spouses). If you took your reduced retirement first while waiting for your spouse to reach retirement age, when you add spouse’s benefits later, your own retirement portion remains reduced which causes the total retirement and spouses benefit together to total less than 50 percent of the worker’s amount. You can find out more on our website.
Your spouse actually needs to be drawing it in order for you to draw it.
Here is the link for additional information: https://blog.ssa.gov/understanding-spouses-benefits/#:~:text=Your%20full%20spouse's%20benefit%20coul...
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