Obama Extends Benefits To Domestic Partners Of Federal Employees President Obama announced late Wednesday that his administration was extending a number of benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees, after a review process that began last year: “That process has now concluded, and I am proud to announce that earlier today, I signed a Memorandum that requires Executive agencies to take immediate action to extend to the same-sex domestic partners of Federal employees a number of meaningful benefits, from family assistance services to hardship transfers to relocation expenses. It also requires agencies that extend any new benefits to employees’ opposite-sex spouses to make those benefits available on equal terms to employees’ same-sex domestic partners to the extent permitted by law.”
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