Updated 4/24/2018. FEHB P rogram. The Federal Employees Health Benefit (FEHB) Program provides comprehensive health care coverage for federal employees, annuitants, and their families.
Same-sex marriage in the United States was initially established on a state-by-state basis, expanding from 1 state in 2004 to 36 states in 2015, when, on June 26, 2015, same-sex marriage was established in all 50 states as a result of the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in the landmark civil rights case of Obergefell v.
This page is the portal for the Same-Sex Couples website. It contains a summary of SSA’s benefits and services as well as other activities that SSA does in support of same-sex couples.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions for Individuals of the Same Sex Who Are Married Under State Law
Same-sex marriage is legal in the U.S. state of Michigan and all other U.S. states as per the U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015.. Michigan had banned recognition of same-sex unions in any form since a 2004 popular vote added an amendment to the State Constitution.
By Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs On August 14, 2013, the Department of Defense announced the plan to extend benefits to same-sex spouses of uniformed service members and Department of Defense civilian employees.
2 couples. Therefore, same-sex couples who are in a civil union or other forms of domestic partnership other than marriage will remain ineligible for most Federal benefits …
Same-sex married couples may now qualify for federal benefits that were previously only available to heterosexual married couples.
On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. As a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, legally married same-sex spouses are eligible family members.
Goodridge v. Mass. Department of Public Health, 440 Mass. 309 (2003). Massachusetts’ “gay marriage” decision. “Barred access to the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage, a person who enters into an intimate, exclusive union with another of the same sex is arbitrarily deprived of