Bill would let military widows and widowers remarry without losing benefits
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Sponsor: Jerry Moran · Senator · KS
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Official title: Love Lives On Act of 2025
119th Congress
Topics: Security & foreign affairs
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The Love Lives On Act of 2025 would let surviving military spouses remarry without losing survivor benefits and health coverage.
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What does this do?
This bill removes penalties that currently cause remarried surviving spouses of veterans or service members to lose certain benefits. It lets them keep receiving Dependency and Indemnity Compensation and Survivor Benefit Plan annuities regardless of remarriage, restarts payments for some who lost them after remarrying before age 55, and lets remarried spouses regain TRICARE coverage if their new marriage ends through death, divorce, or annulment.
Who does it affect?
Surviving spouses of veterans and service members who died from service-related causes, particularly those who remarried after their spouse's death, are affected.
Why does it matter?
The change would remove financial and health-coverage penalties currently tied to remarriage, though it does not affect people outside this group.
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Where does it stand?
- IntroducedFeb 5, 2025
- Senate committeeYou are here · Mar 18, 2026
- Senate vote
- House
- The president's desk
Right now: a Senate committee is reviewing it. If the House changes it, it goes back to the Senate before reaching the president.
Latest action: — Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.