pension

[Guest emmala]

i found out about husbands pension thru social scurity office when i applied for disability was denied but recieved a letter in the mail about ex husbands now decessed pension i was beificary to. got in contact with company and they need a death cirtifacate i provied that then thay asked for a QDRO and provided that. they told me they are gonna have there lawyer look and it send it to accounts department and i would recevie it two weeks later recevied a letter of denined letter said i have 60 days to appeal got a lawyer ex husband has two adult children this is my question do i have any rights i was told his adult children from previous marriage have all right over me his second wife he left no will but i was named beificary of his pension at the company were he named no one else and children were adults at time of marriage we were married more then 10 years please some advise

[Bird]

It'll be very difficult to give any kind of specific advice because it depends on precise language in one or more documents, and ultimately knowing where the money, if any, is. You say you have a QDRO, which implies that there was to be some split of pension proceeds. Do you know what it says? I would think that's the first place to look for an answer.

FYI just because Social Security says there might be money out there doesn't mean that much. They suck a lot of info into their system about benefits that have been earned but don't necessarily get the "not any more" message if the benefit is paid out. You're right to look into it but there are probably more reasons why there's nothing there than there are that something is there.