Love Lives On Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Jerry Moran
Introduced
Summary
Keeps survivor benefits after remarriage. The Love Lives On Act of 2025 would stop remarriage from automatically ending key payments and health coverage for spouses of deceased service members and veterans. It would do this by changing provisions in title 38 and title 10 of the U.S. Code to protect Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, special pension, Survivor Benefit Plan annuities, and TRICARE dependent status.
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- Surviving spouses: Veterans' surviving spouses would remain eligible for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation and special pension even if they remarry. This preserves ongoing monthly payments that remarriage would otherwise have ended.
- Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP): The Department of Defense could not terminate an SBP annuity solely because a surviving spouse remarries. For spouses who remarried before age 55 and before enactment, the bill sets transitional rules that require annuity payments to resume either monthly starting one year after enactment or immediately for those who elected a specific child-transfer option as of Dec. 31, 2019. The bill also adds statutory language clarifying treatment of survivors of members who die on active duty.
- TRICARE dependents: TRICARE's definition of dependent would expand to include a remarried widow or widower whose later marriage ended by death, divorce, or annulment.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Annuity restart for surviving spouses
If enacted, the bill would stop the Secretary of Defense from ending a Survivor Benefit Plan annuity only because a surviving spouse remarried. It would require resuming annuity payments for spouses who remarried before age 55 and before enactment. Generally payments would resume for months that begin one year after enactment. If the spouse transferred payments to a child under 10 U.S.C. 1448(d)(2)(B) as in effect on December 31, 2019, payments would restart the first month after enactment.
Keep veteran survivor pay after remarriage
If enacted, the bill would say that a surviving spouse's remarriage does not bar Dependency and Indemnity Compensation or the specified VA benefits. Surviving spouses could continue to receive or regain those VA payments even if they remarry.
TRICARE coverage for remarried spouses
If enacted, the bill would treat a surviving spouse who remarried as a TRICARE dependent if the later marriage ended by death, divorce, or annulment. That would make such surviving spouses eligible for TRICARE health coverage when their later marriage has ended.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Jerry Moran
KS • R
Cosponsors
Raphael Warnock
GA • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Lisa Murkowski
AK • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Catherine Cortez Masto
NV • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Tom Cotton
AR • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Martin Heinrich
NM • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Mike Rounds
SD • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
John Cornyn
TX • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Mazie Hirono
HI • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Ted Cruz
TX • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
John Hickenlooper
CO • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sheldon Whitehouse
RI • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Jacky Rosen
NV • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Elizabeth Warren
MA • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Maggie Hassan
NH • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Alex Padilla
CA • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Brian Schatz
HI • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Angus King
ME • I
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Bernie Sanders
VT • I
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Chris Van Hollen
MD • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Christopher Coons
DE • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Jeanne Shaheen
NH • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Jon Ossoff
GA • D
Sponsored 2/11/2025
Cory Booker
NJ • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Gary Peters
MI • D
Sponsored 2/26/2025
Angela Alsobrooks
MD • D
Sponsored 3/4/2025
Roger Marshall
KS • R
Sponsored 3/5/2025
Jim Banks
IN • R
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Mark Warner
VA • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Jeff Merkley
OR • D
Sponsored 3/14/2025
John Boozman
AR • R
Sponsored 3/24/2025
Michael Bennet
CO • D
Sponsored 3/25/2025
Ruben Gallego
AZ • D
Sponsored 4/28/2025
Susan Collins
ME • R
Sponsored 4/29/2025
Tim Sheehy
MT • R
Sponsored 5/12/2025
Christopher Murphy
CT • D
Sponsored 5/19/2025
Tammy Baldwin
WI • D
Sponsored 5/20/2025
Shelley Capito
WV • R
Sponsored 6/3/2025
Tina Smith
MN • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Peter Welch
VT • D
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Ron Wyden
OR • D
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Mark Kelly
AZ • D
Sponsored 7/28/2025
Tammy Duckworth
IL • D
Sponsored 9/3/2025
Edward Markey
MA • D
Sponsored 9/29/2025
John Kennedy
LA • R
Sponsored 9/29/2025
Kirsten Gillibrand
NY • D
Sponsored 9/29/2025
Andy Kim
NJ • D
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]
NM • D
Sponsored 10/7/2025
Maria Cantwell
WA • D
Sponsored 11/18/2025
Adam Schiff
CA • D
Sponsored 11/20/2025
Thomas Tillis
NC • R
Sponsored 1/28/2026
Patty Murray
WA • D
Sponsored 1/28/2026
Cindy Hyde-Smith
MS • R
Sponsored 2/4/2026
Pete Ricketts
NE • R
Sponsored 3/17/2026
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