Social Security has a lot of different benefits, for a lot of different people. Most everyone knows the SSA offers retirement and disability benefits to people that worked and paid into the system (and to some who didn’t, via SSI), but many don’t know that there are many ways for family members to receive benefits based on each other’s work records. Parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, widows and widowers, disabled adult children, etc.! Here are two articles discussing some of these benefits:

Social Security benefits for grandchildren

A local man’s fight at the Social Security office reveals spousal benefits you may not know about

(h/t to Terisa Page for the former article, and to Charles Hall’s Social Security News for the latter)