Love Lives On Act of 2025
Current understanding
The Love Lives On Act of 2025 would eliminate remarriage as a disqualifying event for surviving spouses of deceased service members and veterans across three benefit streams: VA Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC), Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities administered by DoD, and TRICARE dependent health coverage. The bill is an incremental expansion of existing survivor programs; fiscal impact depends on the size of the remarried-survivor population reinstated to each program.
Evidence log
- 2026-03-18 — Love Lives On Act of 2025: cross-connection with military-survivor-benefits-tricare: The Love Lives On Act is the specific legislative vehicle proposing the remarriage-bar removal across the SBP, DIC, special pension, and TRICARE frameworks tracked on the survivor benefits page. (novelty: 2)