Marriage Penalty at TASH

At this year’s TASH Conference there was a Self Advocacy Forum.  I raised the issue of the Marriage Penalty so we discussed this for a while and people talked about portability for services (having services go between states for individuals wanting to marry who live in different states and need services which would require them to go on a waiting list in the state they will live).  In talking about this issue we decided that we would do a campaign where we would select a day that each of the fifteen states would go to their Capitol to educate their legislatures about the Marriage Penalty and portability for services.

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