The Protecting Gold Star Spouses Act of 2025 ensures that the Coast Guard Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans receive necessary funding for fiscal years after 2024. The bill provides open-ended appropriations (whatever amount is needed) to continue these survivor benefit payments to spouses and families of deceased Coast Guard retirees, using the same operational terms established in prior law. The legislation applies to any future fiscal year until Congress passes a more permanent appropriations bill for the Coast Guard, at which point those new appropriations would take over and replace the temporary funding provided by this act. Essentially, this bill prevents a lapse in survivor benefits to Gold Star families—those who have lost a military family member—by providing a safety net funding mechanism.
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