The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that it will begin offering the same pension, death and other benefits to the same-sex spouses of military veterans that it provides heterosexual married veterans, following last week’s Supreme Court ruling.
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution requires all states to allow same-sex marriages and recognize the lawful same-sex marriages of other states.
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