title: Filing of applications and requirements for widow's and widower's benefits. Final rule.
abstract: We are revising one of our regulations to clarify that we will protect a title II claimant's filing date as of the date the claimant or other proper applicant on the claimant's behalf completes and transmits to the Social Security Administration (SSA) the Personal Information Identification data on the Internet Social Security Benefit Application (ISBA). This revision addresses an aspect of implementing the ISBA to provide certain rights to Internet filers that we afford to other filers. In addition, we are correcting one word in a different title II regulation. The revision is necessary to correctly reflect the circumstances under which a claimant for widow's or widower's benefits as the insured person's surviving divorced spouse would be considered "unmarried."
mesh_terms: D001330:Electronic Data Processing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D020407:Internet; D012943:Social Security / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D017805:Widowhood / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*