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The Same-Sex Marriage Decision: What’s at Stake for Couples
(By – TARA SIEGEL BERNARD, www.nytimes.com)
If the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriagenationwide, married gay couples will gain all the financial and legal rights and responsibilities of being married, regardless of which state they call home. The highest court’s landmark decision in 2013, United States v. Windsor, already established that married same-sex couples were entitled to federal benefits. But two major federal agencies, Social Security and Veterans Affairs, must still look to the states to determine marital status, so couples living in nonrecognition states are generally cut off from receiving those benefits. Same-sex couples are not entitled to many state-conferred benefits either. Read more…