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R and W were married in 1923 and divorced in 1938. They remarried in 1941 and were together for six years before getting divorced in 1947.
R died in 1953. In September 1965, at age 60, W applied for divorced widow’s benefits based on R’s earnings record.
However, she did not qualify because neither of her marriages to R lasted twenty years, nor was she married to R in each of the twenty calendar years preceding her second divorce.
See Social Security Ruling (SSR) 67-55
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