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Same-Sex Domestic Partner Benefits

Questions and answers

Yes, OPM proposed amendments to its regulations found at 5 C.F.R. §§ 550.401-409 to make it clear that same-sex domestic partners and the children of same sex-domestic partners are considered to be dependents for the purposes of the evacuation pay statutes.  See Final Federal Register Rule, Change in Definitions; Evacuation Pay and the Separate Maintenance Allowance at Johnston Island, July 20, 2012. https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/07/20/2012-17540/change-in-definitions-evacuation-pay-and-the-separate-maintenance-allowance-at-johnston-island

 

 

 

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