Support for Veteran Widows/Widowers: New Rights and Benefits
The "Love Lives On Act of 2022" introduces significant changes for surviving spouses of veterans, making it easier for them to access benefits and services. Key changes include refining the definition of "surviving spouse," extending educational scholarships, continuing financial benefits, and ensuring access to military stores and healthcare, even after remarriage.
Key points
The definition of "surviving spouse" is clarified, potentially simplifying access to benefits.
Surviving spouses of veterans will no longer lose their Fry Scholarship educational benefits upon remarriage.
Financial benefits (DIC) and survivor annuities (SBP) will continue for those who remarried before age 55.
Surviving spouses, regardless of marital status, will gain access to commissary stores and MWR retail facilities.
The TRICARE healthcare program will now include remarried widows or widowers whose subsequent marriage has ended due to death, divorce, or annulment.
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