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November 3, 2021

Same-Sex Partners Will Be Able to Access Social Security Benefits of Deceased Loved Ones
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In a long-fought victory for LGBTQ rights, same-sex partners will have
access to survivors' benefits if their partners died before they were
able to legally marry or they did not meet a threshold of being married
at least nine months. On Monday, the Justice Department and the Social
Security Administration dropped two Trump administration challenges to
lawsuits that granted same-sex couples in both those categories the
right to Social Security survivors benefits. A counsel at Lambda Legal,
which brought the lawsuits, celebrated the news, saying, "No one should
continue to pay the price for past discrimination"


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