A Social Security audit found that widows and widowers were quietly underpaid. Here is what went wrong, how much it cost, and what survivors should check now.

Thousands of widows and widowers were underpaid Social Security benefits after a mistake by the Social Security Administration, costing surviving spouses more than $50 million combined, according to a ...

Thousands of widows and widowers have been short-changed of their Social Security payments as a result of blunders by the Social Security Administration, a government watchdog has revealed. As many as ...

A damning report from the Office of the Inspector General reveals that mistakes from the Social Security Administration (SSA) led to thousands of widows and widowers missing out on millions of dollars ...