Bennet, Hickenlooper Join Murray, Wyden, and Colleagues in Call to Ensure All Eligible Same-Sex Couples Receive Pension Survivor Benefits
Senators Urge Treasury, IRS to Revise Old Guidance That Permits Retirement Plans to Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couples
Dec 15, 2021
Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and 41 of their Senate Democratic colleagues in a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Charles Rettig calling for the Biden Administration to revise current guidance that has led to members of the LGBTQIA+ community being denied pension survivor benefits after losing their life partner.