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| June 7 2021: Colorado Senate killed Gold Star Wives bill for given survivors of totally disabled veterans (HCR21-1002 |
Last week the Colorado Senate really disappointed me. It killed a bill to include Gold Star Wives (widows of troops who die in the line of duty) the same small property tax exemption given widows of totally disabled veterans.
Did senators think our widows don't need the exemption to keep their homes and survive on the puny $1350 per month VA death benefit?
Thousands of survivors of Colorado's disabled vets already get this exemption as they should – but the Senate refused it to our 140 Gold Star Wives. These survivors are denied the exemption only because their servicemembers died in the line of duty on active duty rather than as disabled veterans after active duty.
Esteemed Senators: did you give this any thought before you killed HCR21-1002, passed unanimously by the House?
