S 2017-02-07 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. 1.0.0 Senate Military personnel and dependents Veterans' pensions and compensation Armed Forces and National Security 115 HR 846 2017-02-24 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act CRS Related bill 2017-02-08T08:07:50Z 2017-02-07T23:13:42Z Referred to Standing Senate Armed Services Committee ssas00 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to repeal the requirement for reduction of survivor annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan by veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation, and for other purposes. 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This bill repeals certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military retired pay or who would be entitled to such pay, except for being under 60 years of age.

The Department of Defense is prohibited from recouping certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund.

The bill requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay an annuity to a member's dependent children when there is no eligible surviving spouse. The Secretary concerned shall restore annuity eligibility to a surviving spouse who earlier agreed to transfer such eligibility to the surviving child or children of a member.

2017-02-25T15:02:41Z Introduced in Senate 2017-02-07 Introduced in Senate 00 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z