The Supreme Court’s cisn to sta gay marriage stat where is legal and to extend feral benefs to gay married partners by clarg the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unnstutnal reprents an enormo advance for our untry. No one has a monopoly on language, and if gay people [...]
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- GAY COUPL CAN NOW CASH IN ON SOCIAL SECURY BY GETTG MARRIED
- GETTG FERAL BENEFS TO GAY COUPL: IT'S COMPLITED
- GETTG FERAL BENEFS TO GAY COUPL: IT'S COMPLITED
- HOW GAY UPL N MAXIMIZE THEIR SOCIAL SECURY BENEFS
- GAY MARRIAG GET REGNN FROM THE I.R.S.
GAY COUPL CAN NOW CASH IN ON SOCIAL SECURY BY GETTG MARRIED
Was preparg to issue polici aimed at elimatg the distctn between same-sex and oppose-sex married upl the feral crimal jtice system, acrdg to a speech given at a Saturday event anized by a proment gay-rights group. “That would be big, ” said Gary Beck, legal director for Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs.
GETTG FERAL BENEFS TO GAY COUPL: IT'S COMPLITED
Holr has been the public face of those efforts and has ma champng gay rights one of the central msag of his tenure.
Thompson, who works on gay and lbian issu for the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn Washgton. Holr lled fightg for gay and lbian rights one of “the fg civil rights challeng of our time.
Holr, the first black attorney general, st the gay-rights movement as a ntuatn of the civil rights efforts of the 1960s. Holr plans to make several of those provisns apply equally to gay and straight urt s and crimal vtigatns, for example, same-sex upl will be vered unr what is known as the spoal privilege, a le that says spo nnot be forced to ttify agast each other. Can Gay Coupl File Jot Tax?
GETTG FERAL BENEFS TO GAY COUPL: IT'S COMPLITED
Do the IRS Regnize Gay Marriage?
HOW GAY UPL N MAXIMIZE THEIR SOCIAL SECURY BENEFS
In 2010, the Obama admistratn said the existg law uld be extend to eligible gay employe who need to leave work to re for the children of same-sex stands now, the act appli only to same-sex spo who live stat that regnize their marriage. The Supreme Court’s cisn to sta gay marriage stat where is legal and to extend feral benefs to gay married partners by clarg the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unnstutnal reprents an enormo advance for our untry. No one has a monopoly on language, and if gay people wish to e the word “marriage” to solemnize their votn to one another and legalize their fancial mments, they should have every right the world to do so.
As of today, they have every right to do so 13 stat, where gay marriage is legal, cludg the biggie -- California. But there’s more good news for gay upl! Unmarried gay upl the 13 stat as well as those who move to those stat n, as of today, sh on a potentially very large Social Secury bonanza.
GAY MARRIAG GET REGNN FROM THE I.R.S.
Many gay upl may not know this, but married folk get treated better – a whole lot better -- than sgle folk by Social Secury. To illtrate the potential fancial benefs of gay people tyg the knot one of what will surely be lled The Origal 13 Stat, I jt hopped onto my pany’s ESPlannerPLUS fancial planng program and ran the se of Jerry and Ken, who are both 55 and live CA. I’m not sayg every gay uple that marri will receive such a big fancial bon.
What’s clear though is that wh the right mov, today’s Supreme Court cisn n make a signifint material difference to lns of gay upl. This fact – that Social Secury is serly broke – is not, however, an argument for nyg gay people their God-given right to get married and their Supreme Court-given right to equal benefs and tax unr the law if they live one of the 13 stat that tly treats everyone as equals.