110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 959
To expand a Department of Defense survivor annuity program that
covers unremarried surviving spouses of certain members of the uniformed
services who died before October 1, 1978, to include any otherwise eligible
surviving spouse who remarries after age 55 or whose remarriage before age
55 is terminated.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 8, 2007
Mr. SAXTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Armed Services
A BILL
To expand a Department of Defense survivor annuity program that
covers unremarried surviving spouses of certain members of the uniformed
services who died before October 1, 1978, to include any otherwise eligible
surviving spouse who remarries after age 55 or whose remarriage before age
55 is terminated.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Forgotten Military Widows Annuity Act of 2007'.
SEC. 1. ANNUITY ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN SURVIVING SPOUSES WHO REMARRY.
(a) Eligibility- Paragraph (2) of section 644(a) of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 10 U.S.C. 1448
note) is amended to read as follows:
`(2) A qualified surviving spouse for purposes of this section is a surviving
spouse of a member of the uniformed services described in subparagraph (A)
or (B) of paragraph (1) who--
`(B) remarried after age 55; or
`(C) remarried, whether before or after age 55, but is no longer married
as a result of the termination of the subsequent marriage due to death,
annulment, or divorce.'.
(b) Effective Date of Restored Annuity; Prospective Applicability- Such
section is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
`(3) If eligibility for an annuity under this section is established or
restored by reason of subparagraph (B) or (C) of paragraph (2), payment
of the annuity shall be commenced or resumed effective, subject to paragraph
(4), as of the first day of the month in which--
`(A) the subsequent marriage occurs, in the case of eligibility under
subsection (B); or
`(B) the subsequent marriage is terminated, in the case of eligibility
under subsection (C).
`(4) No annuity or other benefit shall accrue to any person by reason of
subparagraph (B) or (C) of paragraph (2) for any period before the first
day of the first month beginning on or after the date of the enactment of
the Forgotten Military Widows Annuity Act of 2007.'.
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