Military widows must remarry?

I read that earlier and I cringed...

The thing is, though... The U.S. doesn't even take care of the LIVE soldiers, when they come home! Why would anyone think they'd take care of the spouses left behind!?!

When I saw that in order for them to collect their rightful benefits, they HAD to re-marry...?

@by... It is NOT contingent on being spent of family needs! No one has the right to tell anyone how they're going to spend their pension, either!

If it's a state allowance than the Government is entitled to do what it wants if the couple knew what they were getting. If they didn't like it they surely could have taken out private insurance.

Now that said this does seem very odd to me. If you are fighting for your country then surely one less worry is if anything happens to you, your wife and kids will have enough money for a decent life. I am not sure I would want another man coming into my home for what could be a described and described by you as a dowry! Very odd. I don't know why it's such a big deal to get married!

Here in Britain it's likely to go the other way as in if a women gets remarried then she will lose some of her benefit with the logic being that the man will have his own income and thus the household income would increase, thus no need for all the benefit.

I think both systems are wrong and no matter how the women decides to live her life after her husband is KIA she should be given the full amount and that's that.

It's not up to Government to intrude into people's personal lives like that.

I agree with you..

Crazy it is; Uncle Sam should stay out of the private affairs of others; the reason that policy was taken was so that the one left behind would be looked after; that's its soul reason. It gives pause to what the fine print says; always read that fine print when signing any contract.

The whole thing is completely bizarre. How did someone come up with this nonsense? I'd have loved to been there to hear the discussions that led to these restrictions and how someone came up with marrying after 57.

The only thing I can imagine to make any sense of that, is it may be old wording that hasn't been updated in 50 years. Clearly an update is long overdue...

Absolute disrespect towards people who've given their most precious possession, their life, to their countries; absolute disrespect to their families as well. Disgraceful.

I'm going to reserve judgment until I research that more. But on the surface that sounds stupid. Unless of course those were cheating military wives. To me, they are the lowest of the low when it comes to slut and deserve nothing

See that's a cause worth protesting for. It's utterly ridiculous.

That is to ensure the money given will be spent on actual household needs (and therefore not adding more misery to an already screwed family), not dilapidated on useless things like shopping or whatever else women use to do with money.

This sounds very crazy. I don't even know what to say.