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PROOF
Office
of Social Security
Does Not Recognize Homosexual
Marriages
January 11,
2010
Social
Security Administration (SSA)Online:
Click Here - To see what The Defense of Marriage
Act says about marriage on the SSA website. Scroll down to note,
number two:
"The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (P.L.
104-199) reinforced the definition of marriage for federal
programs as "only a legal union between one man and one woman as
husband and wife" and further provided that no state would be
required to recognize "a relationship between persons of the same
sex that is treated as marriage under the laws" of another
state."
Click Here - To see "What is the
definition of 'spouse' for Social Security purposes" is. Scroll down
to note, number one:
"Under Federal law an individual whose
claim for benefits is based on a State recognized same-sex marriage
or having the same status as spouse for State inheritance purposes
cannot meet the statutory gender-based definition of husband or wife
of the worker, including one who is divorced. Therefore, for all
benefit purposes, the Social Security Administration does not
recognize such individual as the spouse of the worker."
Also
- Scroll down on this page to read a scanned page that
was U.S. mailed to me by The Office of Social
Security, on the
topic.
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