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Frequently Asked Questions Same Sex Domestic Partner Benefits

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Can Federal employees obtain benefits for their same-sex domestic partners and the children of their same-sex domestic partners?

Yes, with respect to many benefits.  President Obama issued a memorandum on June 2, 2010, requesting all Federal agencies to consider extending benefits currently available to employees’ opposite-sex spouses to employees’ same-sex domestic partners, as long as such coverage could be extended consistent with law.  See the Presidential Memorandum "Extension of Benefits to Same-Sex Domestic Partners of Federal Employees," at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-extension-benefits-same-sex-domestic-partners-federal-emplo. Agencies have reviewed and are continuing to review their programs and proposing or implementing changes to their programs in response to the President’s memorandum, and a number of benefits are now available to same-sex domestic partners of Federal employees that previously were not as described below, under specific benefits.

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