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Of course the tax law is not that explicit, however the results of a tax law change ARE specific; as are the proposed Bills to reverse them.

https://taskandpurpose.com/trump-tax-cut-widows

Currently, two bills aimed at removing the offset from survivors benefits have been introduced to the House and Senate; the Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2019, sponsored by Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.); and the Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act sponsored by Reps. Joe Wilson, (R-S.C.) and John Yarmuth, (D-Ky.).

Even with bills to remove the offset introduced the House and Senate, survivors like Johns, Braden-Rogers, Lankford, and Jones are left to deal with the fallout of this year's tax season on their own.

"A lot of us as military widows, many of us didn't have jobs, didn't have careers, when our spouses were killed, because we had followed our husbands around," Jones, who works part-time in real estate, in between going to college and caring for her sons, told Task & Purpose.

"Now you're a single parent and you're trying to be there for your kids, and they've already lost one parent and you've got to go to work all day long, and you're trying to balance this," Jones continued. "It's so hard, and it's so exhausting. How am I going to pay for this... What am I going to do when this child turns 18 and all this drops off. Am I going to have to sell my house, are we going to have to move?"

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