20 CFR § 404.333 - Wife's and husband's benefit amounts.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s404.333"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "20 CFR § 404.333 - Wife's and husband's benefit amounts."
title_number: 20
title_name: "Employees' Benefits"
section_number: "404.333"
section_name: "Wife's and husband's benefit amounts."
chapter_name: "SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION"
part_number: "404"
part_name: "FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
cfr_part: "404"
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# 404.333 Wife's and husband's benefit amounts.
Your wife's or husband's monthly benefit is equal to one-half the insured person's primary insurance amount. If you are entitled as a divorced wife or as a divorced husband before the insured person becomes entitled, we will compute the primary insurance amount as if he or she became entitled to old-age benefits in the first month you are entitled as a divorced wife or as a divorced husband. The amount of your monthly benefit may change as explained in § 404.304.
[51 FR 11912, Apr. 8, 1986]