The Department of Labor has issued guidance to employee benefit plans, plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries, and plan participants and beneficiaries as to the impact the U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Windsor has on benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). In Windsor, the Court addressed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and held as unconstitutional the section requiring federal laws to ignore same-sex marriages legally entered into under an applicable state law.
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