D.C. Public Safety and Teacher Survivor Benefits: Domestic Partners and Remarriage Rules.
This Act expands federal survivor benefits for families of District of Columbia police officers, firefighters, and teachers. Key changes include treating domestic partnerships the same as marriage for benefit eligibility and adjusting the age limit for remarriage without losing survivor annuities. It also allows certain D.C. employees to make a deposit to ensure their prior D.C. service is fully credited toward their federal retirement benefits.
Key points
Domestic partners of deceased D.C. police officers, firefighters, and teachers are now eligible for federal survivor benefits, matching existing D.C. law.
Survivors can remarry after age 55 (or if the marriage lasted 30 years) without losing their federal survivor annuity benefits.
D.C. employees can make a service deposit to ensure their D.C. service time is fully counted when calculating their federal retirement pension.
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