spousal benefits
Partner coverage entitlements
Spousal benefits are financial entitlements available to the husband or wife of an employee, retiree, or deceased person.
These typically include health insurance coverage, pension payments, and Social Security benefits: She receives spousal benefits from her husband's retirement plan.
The term appears frequently in discussions of benefits denied to same-sex couples before marriage equality.
- dental insuranceCoverage for oral care
- health coverageProtection against medical costs
- inheritance rightsHeir's legal estate entitlements
- next of kinNearest living family members
- bereavement leaveWork absence for mourning
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- Retirement Incomepension, Social Security, 401k, IRA, annuity
- Social SecuritySSN, FICA, Social Security Administration, disability benefits, retirement benefits
- government pensionsretirement pay, federal pensions, pension fund, pension plans, survivor benefits
- employee benefitshealth insurance, pension, 401k, 401(k), retirement
- family benefitsdaycare subsidy, childcare, nanny share, childcare subsidies, adoption leave
- gay marriagegay marriage, same-sex wedding, marriage equality, civil union, civil partnership