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Social Security Survivors Benefits: Exploring the Effects of Reproductive Pathways and State Intestacy Laws on Attitudes Regarding Benefit Eligibility and Awards
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Social Security survivors benefits
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Financial Services
Short Abstract
Most minor children are eligible for Social Security survivors benefits if a wage-earning parent dies, but eligibility of children not in utero at the time of death is more nuanced. The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes concerning access to Social Security survivors benefits in the context of posthumous reproduction. A probability sample of 540 Florida households responded to a multiple-segment factorial vignette designed to examine the effects of state intestacy laws and five reproductive pathways—normative, posthumous birth, cryopreserved embryo, cryopreserved gametes, and posthumous gamete retrieval—on attitudes toward eligibility for the Social Security survivors benefits. Broad support was found for the survivors benefits following normative and posthumous birth pathways, but attitudes were decidedly less favorable when the child was not in utero at the time of parental death. In addition, in stark contrast to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Astrue v. Capato, the vast majority of respondents did not believe state intestacy laws should determine eligibility for Social Security survivors benefits.
Corresponding Author
Martie Gillen, Ph.D., MBA, University of Florida
Job Title
Assistant Professor
City & State (or Province & Country)
Gainesville, FL
Additional Authors
Jason D. Hans, Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Job Title
Associate Professor
City & State (or Province & Country)
Lexington, KY