---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 404.333"
title: "20"
number: "404.333"
heading: "Wife's and husband's benefit amounts."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/404.333"
---

# §404.333. Wife's and husband's benefit amounts.


Your wife's or husband's monthly benefit is equal to one-half the insured person's primary insurance amount. If you are entitled as a divorced wife or as a divorced husband before the insured person becomes entitled, we will compute the primary insurance amount as if he or she became entitled to old-age benefits in the first month you are entitled as a divorced wife or as a divorced husband. The amount of your monthly benefit may change as explained in [§ 404.304](/cfr/20/404.304.md).


## Notes

### Amendments

[51 FR 11912, Apr. 8, 1986]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 202, 203(a) and (b), 205(a), 216, 223, 225, and 702(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402, 403(a) and (b), 405(a), 416, 423, 425, and 902(a)(5)).

### Source

Source: 44 FR 34481, June 15, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[51 FR 11912, Apr. 8, 1986]