On Friday the White House announced that President Obama had requested that the Department of Labor rewrite its rules pertaining to the Family Medical Leave Act to be inclusive of same-sex couple. The rules are meant to be include all same-sex couples in the U.S. regardless of any one state?s specific stance on same-sex marriage. The announcement comes approximately one year after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act to allow the federal government to tax and provide health and pension benefits to same-sex couples in states where they could legally marry. The announcement also follows the Department of Justice?s decision to expand taxation and pension and health benefits regardless of which state a same-sex couple resides in so long as their marriage is legal and valid.
See "White House nears completion of effort to implement DOMA ruling", Kevin Liptak, CNN, June 19, 2014