Social Security Administration halts SSI overpayment notices concerning certain same sex couples
If a disabled or elderly person receives Supplemental Security Income (SSI), there are income and resource restrictions as a condition for eligibility. When two SSI recipients are married, the monthly benefit is lower than it would be to two unmarried individuals. Until the Defense of Marriage Act (D.O.M.A.) was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. Windsor in 2013, a same sex...