The marriage penalty

Published: April 15, 2021, 8:16 p.m.

After spending years fighting to get disability benefits, Amber was finally approved. But she and her wife, Diana, didn\u2019t realize they had entered a complicated, arcane system where health care might cost you your marriage.

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