Love Lives On Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-02-05Topic: veterans military

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Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Love Lives On Act of 2025 This bill extends entitlement for various benefit programs and services for surviving spouses of deceased members of the Armed Forces or veterans. The bill provides that the remarriage of a surviving spouse must not bar the furnishing of dependency and indemnity compensation or special pension benefits to such spouse. Additionally, the Department of Defense may not terminate the payment of an annuity for a surviving spouse under the Survivor Benefit Plan solely because the surviving spouse remarries. The bill also expands the definition of a dependent under TRICARE to include a remarried widow or widower whose subsequent marriage has ended due to death, divorce, or annulment.

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Action history

Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2026-03-26	House	Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.	refer
2026-03-26	House	Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held	refer
2026-02-03	House	Subcommittee Hearings Held	refer
2025-03-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.	refer
2025-02-05	House	Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-02-05	House	Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-02-05		Introduced in House	introduce
2025-02-05		Introduced in House	introduce

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