A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation to fix a change in President Trump's tax law that unexpectedly stuck some families of fallen service members with higher tax bills this year.
Survivor benefits designated to children were previously taxed at the parent's rate, but changes in the 2017 tax law, which Republicans say were intended to simplify tax rules for child income, led to the steep hikes for some Gold Star families. The government instead began treating the Defense Department benefit as if it were a trust or estate, meaning it could be taxed at rates as high as 37%.
"People are absolutely shocked that this happened, and they weren't planning for it," Ashlynne Haycock, deputy director of policy for the military families nonprofit Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors , told CNN during an interview in April."It has been a severe hardship for surviving families.
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