There are some circumstances in which a person’s eligibility for governmental benefits is affected by his or her marital status. This is certainly the case with Medicaid/MLTSS; Supplemental Security Income; and exemption from inheritance tax on receipt of an inheritance. The NJ Appellate Division had the opportunity recently to decide whether a veteran’s widow would retain her eligibility for his veterans’ property tax relief if she remarried. In Pruent-Stevens v. Toms River Twp., the property owner’s first husband was an honorably-discharged Viet Nam veteran. He died before 1997 at a time that he had a pending claim for service-connected compensation benefits due to exposure to Agent Orange defoliant. She remarried , and her second husband died in 1997. eventually, in 2014 (!) the Veterans Administration approved the claim and declared that the first husband had died of a service-connected disability. She then filed for disabled veterans…
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