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A and B were happily married in the 60’s in a state that had an anti-miscegenation statute (a law prohibiting interracial marriage). Though it is hard to imagine these kinds of laws existed, it is nevertheless a historical fact.
At any rate, after A and B both reached retirement age, the question arose as to whether B (wife) was entitled to wife’s social security benefits.
The answer, despite the anti-miscegenation law which purported to declare their marriage null and void, was: of course she was.
The U.S. Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, unequivocally declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional as violating the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
See Social Security Ruling (SSR) 67-56.
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