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Same-sex partners of federal workers can start applying for benefits next month
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 02, 2010 12:58pm |
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| Category | Rule Change |
| Author | Ed O'Keefe |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 2, 2010 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The same-sex partners of gay and lesbian federal workers can start applying next month for long-term health-care insurance, the Office of Personnel Management said Tuesday.
President Obama signed a memo last June extending some benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers, including access to the government's Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program. On Tuesday, OPM essentially broadened the definition of relatives eligible for the program to include same-sex domestic partners of eligible federal workers, U.S. Postal Service workers and federal retirees.
OPM will not extend access to opposite-sex domestic partners, because they can obtain the insurance through marriage, "an option not currently available to same-sex domestic partners," the agency wrote in Tuesday's Federal Register.
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