More LGBTQ couples can access Social Security survivor benefits

By Ray Levy Uyeda February 16, 2022 at 11:53 a.m. EST

In November, the SSA dropped its Trump-era appeals in two class-action lawsuits filed by the LGBTQ legal advocacy organization Lambda Legal, resulting in the broadening of who is able to access survivor benefits. The SSA now allows LGBTQ individuals to receive survivor benefits if they can show they were in a committed relationship and would have married if possible, as well as those who were married for less than nine months before one spouse died. Read more HERE.

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