The retirement benefit collection status of your spouse in the month you file for early retirement benefits determines whether you are deemed to be also be applying for spousal benefits.
If the Social Security recipient is filing for benefits prior to Full Retirement Age and he is also eligible for the Spousal Benefit at the same time (that is, his spouse has already filed for her own benefit), then another special provision applies, called Deemed Filing.
If you have a funeral to attend, you need to have Friday off and you are deemed to have a funeral when the dead person is a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse or partner, an in-law, a grand-parent, a cousin, an aunt, an uncle, a friend, a classmate, a nephew, a niece, a boss, someone you go to church with, a workmate, a neighbour and of course, a president.