S 410
Cleared committee
Lets surviving spouses who remarry keep certain veterans benefits, including VA dependency and indemnity compensation and Survivor Benefit Plan annuities, and makes some remarried widows and widowers eligible for TRICARE.
Official title: Love Lives On Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
Senate
Introduced
05-FEB-2025
Referred
05-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
18-MAR-2026
- Provides that remarriage does not bar certain VA benefits under sections 1311 and 1562 of title 38 for surviving spouses of veterans.
- Bars the Secretary of Defense from ending a Survivor Benefit Plan annuity solely because the surviving spouse remarries, and requires resuming annuities for certain spouses who remarried before age 55.
- Makes a remarried widow or widower whose later marriage ended by death, divorce, or annulment a TRICARE dependent.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in Senate, 05-FEB-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Veterans' Affairs Committee (Senate)
Armed Forces and National Security
■ 41 D■ 18 R■ 2 I
41 Democrats
- Angela D. Alsobrooks
- Tammy Baldwin
- Michael F. Bennet
- Richard Blumenthal
- Lisa Blunt Rochester
- Cory A. Booker
- Maria Cantwell
- Christopher A. Coons
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Tammy Duckworth
- John Fetterman
- Ruben Gallego
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Martin Heinrich
- John W. Hickenlooper
- Mazie K. Hirono
- Mark Kelly
- Andy Kim
- Amy Klobuchar
- Ben Ray Luján
- Edward J. Markey
- Jeff Merkley
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
18 Republicans
2 Independents