"Working without fanfare and very closely with members of Congress for more than three years, the Human Rights Campaign secured two important protections that assist gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans in the Pension Protection Act signed into law on Aug. 17, 2006. The act includes provisions allowing non-spouse beneficiaries to roll over retirement benefits, and adding non-spouse beneficiaries to the retirement plan hardship distribution rules. The two provisions extend important financial protections to same-sex couples and other Americans who name non-spouses as their retirement plan beneficiaries."
for the complete article go to this address..
http://hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=33539&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm
For those of you out there that are not same sex couples, but are not Married this works as well. Actualy it applies to a large range of people.
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