Forgotten Military Widows Annuity Act of 2007

Forgotten Military Widows Annuity Act of 2007 - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to make eligible under a Department of Defense (DOD) survivor annuity program that currently allows a survivor annuity to be paid to the unremarried surviving spouses of certain members of the Armed Forces who died before October 1, 1978, those surviving spouses who: (1) remarried after age 55; or (2) remarried at any age, but whose subsequent marriage was terminated due to death, annulment, or divorce.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 959 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 959

To expand a Department of Defense survivor annuity program that covers 
   unremarried surviving spouses of certain members of the uniformed 
  services who died before October 1, 1978, to include any otherwise 
     eligible surviving spouse who remarries after age 55 or whose 
                remarriage before age 55 is terminated.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 8, 2007

  Mr. Saxton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To expand a Department of Defense survivor annuity program that covers 
   unremarried surviving spouses of certain members of the uniformed 
  services who died before October 1, 1978, to include any otherwise 
     eligible surviving spouse who remarries after age 55 or whose 
                remarriage before age 55 is terminated.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Forgotten Military Widows Annuity 
Act of 2007''.

SEC. 1. ANNUITY ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN SURVIVING SPOUSES WHO REMARRY.

    (a) Eligibility.--Paragraph (2) of section 644(a) of the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 10 
U.S.C. 1448 note) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(2) A qualified surviving spouse for purposes of this section is 
a surviving spouse of a member of the uniformed services described in 
subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) who--
            ``(A) has not remarried;
            ``(B) remarried after age 55; or
            ``(C) remarried, whether before or after age 55, but is no 
        longer married as a result of the termination of the subsequent 
        marriage due to death, annulment, or divorce.''.
    (b) Effective Date of Restored Annuity; Prospective 
Applicability.--Such section is further amended by adding at the end 
the following new paragraphs:
    ``(3) If eligibility for an annuity under this section is 
established or restored by reason of subparagraph (B) or (C) of 
paragraph (2), payment of the annuity shall be commenced or resumed 
effective, subject to paragraph (4), as of the first day of the month 
in which--
            ``(A) the subsequent marriage occurs, in the case of 
        eligibility under subsection (B); or
            ``(B) the subsequent marriage is terminated, in the case of 
        eligibility under subsection (C).
    ``(4) No annuity or other benefit shall accrue to any person by 
reason of subparagraph (B) or (C) of paragraph (2) for any period 
before the first day of the first month beginning on or after the date 
of the enactment of the Forgotten Military Widows Annuity Act of 
2007.''.
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