If you start receiving benefits as a spouse at your full retirement age, you will get 50% of the monthly benefit your spouse would receive if his or her benefits started at full retirement age. age 62, you will get 35% of the monthly benefit instead of 50% because you will be getting benefits for an additional 48 months.
* Excerpted by the National Humanities Center, 2006: www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/pds.htm. From Bartolome bartolomÃ© de Las, Casas An, Account Much, abbreviated of The destruction of The, indies With Related, texts. Ed Franklin. W, & knight. Tr Andrew (Hurley Hackett. Publ., co), 2003. pp-2, 3-6. 8 permission. pending
Italicized links reference cites outside the Maroon Sovereignty Project. Columbus's discovery of Jamaica in 1494 began two centuries of Spanish rule. The Spanish enslaved the native Arawaks, who quickly died out from the depridations of slave life and the diseases brought by the European conquerers.