Permanent Health and Dental Benefits for Gold Star Surviving Spouses.
This bill removes the three-year time limit for Gold Star surviving spouses to access comprehensive medical (TRICARE Prime) and dental benefits. This change ensures that eligible spouses of service members who died in the line of duty can maintain these crucial health benefits indefinitely. The expansion of benefits applies retroactively, covering deaths that occurred before the law's enactment.
Key points
Eliminates the three-year expiration date for Gold Star surviving spouses to receive full TRICARE Prime medical coverage.
Grants indefinite access to dental benefits for the same group of eligible surviving spouses.
The benefit expansion is retroactive, ensuring all qualifying surviving spouses, regardless of the date of death, are covered.
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