S 410
Love Lives On Act of 2025
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Bill overview
The Love Lives On Act of 2025 aims to improve benefits and services for surviving spouses of military members and veterans. Specifically, it removes the bar on receiving benefits for remarried surviving spouses, allowing them to continue receiving dependency and indemnity compensation and special pension benefits. The bill also extends eligibility for the Survivor Benefit Plan and expands the definition of a dependent under the TRICARE program to include remarried widows and widowers.
Key provisions
- Removes the bar on benefits for remarried surviving spouses.
- Extends eligibility for the Survivor Benefit Plan for remarried spouses.
- Expands the definition of a dependent under TRICARE to include remarried widows and widowers whose subsequent marriages have ended due to death, divorce, or annulment.
- Allows resumption of annuity payments for remarried spouses over 55 who previously elected to transfer payments to a child.
- Clarifies the continuation of annuity payments for surviving spouses who remarried before the bill's enactment.
Who is affected
- Surviving spouses of military members and veterans
- TRICARE beneficiaries
- Department of Defense
- Veterans Administration
Notable changes
- Modifies the definition of remarriage to not bar benefits.
- Extends eligibility for the Survivor Benefit Plan under specific circumstances.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
S. 410
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
A BILL
To amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to improve benefits and services for surviving spouses, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Love Lives On Act of 2025
.
Section 103(d) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
in paragraph (2)(B)—
by inserting (i)
before The remarriage
;
in clause (i), as designated by subparagraph (A), by striking Notwithstanding the previous sentence
and inserting the following:
Notwithstanding clause (i)
by adding at the end the following new clause:
Notwithstanding clause (ii), the remarriage of a surviving spouse shall not bar the furnishing of benefits under section 1311 or 1562 of this title to the surviving spouse of a veteran.
in paragraph (5)—
by striking subparagraph (A); and
by renumbering subparagraphs (B) through (E) as subparagraphs (A) through (D), respectively.
Section 1450(b)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is amended—
by striking An annuity
and inserting the following:
(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), an annuity
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
The Secretary may not terminate payment of an annuity for a surviving spouse described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 1448(d)(1) solely because that surviving spouse remarries. In the case of a surviving spouse who remarried before reaching age 55 and before the date of the enactment of
Love Lives On Act of 2025
, the Secretary shall resume payment of the annuity to that surviving spouse—except as provided by clause (ii), for each month that begins on or after the date that is one year after such date of enactment; or
on the first day of the first month beginning after such date of enactment, in the case of a surviving spouse who elected to transfer payment of that annuity to a surviving child or children under the provisions of section 1448(d)(2)(B) of title 10, United States Code, as in effect on December 31, 2019.
Section 1072(2) of title 10, United States Code, is amended—
in subparagraph (H), by striking ; and
and inserting a semicolon;
in subparagraph (I)(v), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and
; and
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
a remarried widow or widower whose subsequent marriage has ended due to death, divorce, or annulment.