“Lambda Legal, the organization leading this campaign, laid the groundwork in two lawsuits filed during Donald Trump’s presidency. Both challenged the Social Security Administration’s denial of survivor’s benefits to individuals affected by same-sex marriage bans, which have been unenforceable since the Supreme Court found them unconstitutional in 2015’s
Obergefell v. Hodges.
The first suit was filed on behalf of widows and widowers who could never marry because their same-sex partners died before same-sex marriages were legalized.
The second was filed on behalf of widows and widowers who were married for less than nine months before their same-sex partner died. Typically, survivor’s benefits are only available if the marriage lasted more than nine months. But if an unconstitutional law prevented the couple from marrying until the end of one partner’s life, Lambda argued, the government had an obligation to alter this rule.”
Before anyone decided not to read the article before they comment. 700 people were identified to not have gotten benefits. Reparations?