On September 18, 2013, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued Technical Release 2013-04 (the “Release”), adopting the treatment of same-sex marriages for purposes of ERISA (and for purposes of the Federal Employees’ Retirement System) that was recently prescribed for tax purposes by the IRS. See our previous Alert dated September 3, 2013, IRS Answers Residence Question for Same-Sex Spouses, at http://www.fordharrison.com/9568.
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