Marriage Equality for Disabled Adults Act
Official title: To secure the rights and dignity of marriage for Disabled Adult Children, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Marriage Equality for Disabled Adults Act
This bill eliminates certain marriage-related criteria for individuals entitled to Social Security child’s benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
Specifically, the bill removes the requirement that individuals receiving Social Security child’s benefits be unmarried. Those eligible for Social Security child’s benefits generally include the minor children of eligible or deceased workers and disabled adult children (the disabled adult children of such workers for whom the onset of disability occurred before age 22). Under current law, child beneficiaries generally lose their benefits upon marriage to an individual who is not also eligible for Social Security benefits.
With respect to SSI, the bill removes the requirement that couples who present themselves as married in their community be considered married for purposes of SSI eligibility. The bill also exempts SSI recipients who are disabled adult children, or who marry disabled adult children, from the general requirement that the income or resources of an SSI recipient’s spouse be considered in an eligibility determination.
Further, married disabled adult children and their spouses who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid in a state if they were unmarried must remain eligible for Medicaid regardless of their marriage.
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- THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES
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- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
- THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES
- CURE SMA
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
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- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Education, Dept of
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1389: Marriage Equality for Disabled Adults Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1389/
"H.R. 1389: Marriage Equality for Disabled Adults Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1389/.
H.R. 1389, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1389/.
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