Jones leads new effort to repeal Military Widow's Tax
Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, and colleague Susan Collins, R-Maine, sent a bipartisan letter to ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on Monday urging them to include the Military Widow’s Tax Elimination Act of 2019 in the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act.
“We have an obligation to make sure that we are taking care of our military families who have sacrificed so much,” Jones and Collins wrote. “This problem goes back decades, but this year we can finally solve it once and for all. It is our time to do our duty not only to support the brave men and women of our military, but also to support their families.”
If made law, the legislation would repeal a law nicknamed The Widow’s Tax that prevents 67,000 surviving military spouses from collecting full survivor benefits from the Department of Defense and Veteran Affairs.
Under the current law, military widows and widowers who qualify for the VA’s Dependency and Indemnity Compensation are unable to collect their full Survivor Benefits Plan, instead having the amount received from DIC deducted from their plan.
Read more: https://www.alreporter.com/2019/08/07/jones-leads-new-effort-to-repeal-military-widows-tax/
(Alabama Political Reporter)
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