Domestic partners of New Mexico state retirees get benefits

https://www.kob.com/article/stories/s903672.shtml?cat=504

For what it's worth I'm thinking our state government has been equal in deducting the money out of 'all' state' employee pay checks all along , but until this lawsuit brought in 2007 by American Civil Liberties Union shed some light on the deal they were less than equal with the benefits to 'all state employees' . IMO

domestic partnerships benefits have been available to "straight" couples for a while here. Its not that hard I considered to it when we lived together before marriage, but we get better coverage separately.


This just corrects the fact that it did not allow same sex domestic partners to qualify, even if they can provide the same exact proof and documents that straight people could.

and trust me this state deducts out the wazoo, for the coverage we do get, so its not free coverage, but its at least fair now.

I'm not a state employee nor gay so all I could 'give' is opinion about this. I was hoping someone with first hand knowledge either as a state employee or part of a domestic partnership either straight or gay would post about this.

Yeah, I count as a state educational employee...

domestic partner benefits are easy to get, "proof" is pretty basic for any couple living together, both names on lease, joint accounts, signing a statement that you "look after each other". We can opt into the health and other benefits once a year, or other times if criteria is meet, (like a new marriage or partnership). Like I said, I would have done it for the two years we lived together before marriage, but it would have cost us more money out of pocket and the other benefits just weren't worth it at the time.

Ya just gotta wonder if them politicians don't like 'egg on the face' with this kind of s***. All along the benefits have been accessible to some but not all employees ,it takes a lawsuit to 'make them 'fix' it . I would think they would crawl off with red faces and tails tucked for being as*holes all this time. .

meh, nah they are just doing what will get them elected and keep them there.

And its not like marriage was defined specifically between a man and a woman here in NM, gender used to completely left out of the law. It might be changed now there was a big scandal when the Sandoval county clerk decided to start handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Though its been a few years, I don't remember the details other than there was a mad rush to stop her, so they must have passed something....it's a little fuzzy to me right now.

Though most domestic partnerships couples I knew from work were straight couples, being a community property state sometimes it is in couple best financial interest not to marry. It depends, the laws are weird. But this finally makes it fair. Which is good in my opinion.