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Love Lives On Act of 2025

Official title: To amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to improve benefits and services for surviving spouses, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This bill extends entitlement for various benefit programs and services for surviving spouses of deceased members of the Armed Forces or veterans.

The bill provides that the remarriage of a surviving spouse must not bar the furnishing of dependency and indemnity compensation or special pension benefits to such spouse.

Additionally, the Department of Defense may not terminate the payment of an annuity for a surviving spouse under the Survivor Benefit Plan solely because the surviving spouse remarries.

The bill also expands the definition of a dependent under TRICARE to include a remarried widow or widower whose subsequent marriage has ended due to death, divorce, or annulment.

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Timeline

  1. House committee actionsSubcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  2. House committee actionsSubcommittee Hearings Held
  3. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
  4. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  5. House floor actionsReferred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  6. Introduced
  7. Committee

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