Aratnmot

Thanks for the replies. It gave me a few avenues to look in to I had not thought of. good day to you all.

Is this possible? Get remarried. Start collecting my benefits with the 100% pop up for my spouse option chosen and then divorce again? I’ll have to look into that. thanks

I was expecting some of that comment I suppose. I asked the question obviously for personal reasons. I divorced several years ago for reasons not personal with my marriage. We still live together and celebrate our anniversary every year. When it comes time to retire I want to ensure my spouse (not spouse ?) is given the benefits she has earned and deserves for the 30years we have spent together. Our divorce was a necessary requirement for other reasons that personally I felt were absurd. we did it the cheapest way possible with no qdro. I told her if I died to pretend the divorce never happened and submit the death certificate and marriage certificate to the plan administration. Now I’m coming up on eligibility to retire. I want to choose the 100% pop up option so she is taken care of in the future after my demise. fraudulent? Morally It’s the right thing to do in my opinion. I suppose we can remarry but then it complicates the other issue that we divorced for in the first place. thanks for the answer.

Do plan administrations search public records for marriage and divorce certificates? example would be filling out the pension application to start drawing a regular pension and not checking the divorced box. If you did not check the box saying that you had been divorced do they search public records to verify? thanks