HR 6640 United States House · 118th Congress

Marriage Equality for Disabled Adults Act

The Marriage Equality for Disabled Adults Act removes a rule requiring disabled adult children to remain unmarried to receive Social Security benefits. It ensures married disabled adult children, or their spouses, can maintain eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicaid without losing benefits due to marriage. The bill changes how income and resources are counted, so a spouse's income and resources are no longer deemed against the disabled adult child for benefit calculations. It also requires states to preserve Medicaid eligibility for these individuals at the same level as if they were unmarried.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2023
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Introduced Dec 6, 2023 Last action Dec 17, 2024
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Dec 17, 2024
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.
lower
Dec 17, 2024
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
lower
Dec 8, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Dec 6, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Dec 6, 2023
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1 primary · 19 co-sponsors

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