Love Lives On Act of 2025

The Love Lives On Act of 2025 would modify federal benefits programs for surviving spouses of deceased members of the Armed Forces and veterans. Currently, remarriage can result in loss of certain survivor benefits. This bill would change that by allowing surviving spouses to retain dependency and indemnity compensation and special pension benefits regardless of whether they remarry. It would also prevent the Department of Defense from terminating annuity payments under the Survivor Benefit Plan solely because a surviving spouse remarries.

Additionally, the bill would expand eligibility for TRICARE health insurance coverage to include remarried widows and widowers whose subsequent marriages have ended through death, divorce, or annulment. This would allow individuals who remarried after losing a military spouse but whose second marriage ended to regain access to military health benefits. The bill is currently under committee consideration and has not yet been voted on by the full House.