Supreme Court Upholds Equal Public Benefits for Mexico Same-Sex Couples BuzzFeed
go to original January 31, 2014

Couples are winning the right to marry in courts throughout Mexico, but they are still fighting to get access to all the rights that entails. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)

The Mexican Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the ministry overseesing pensions and health benefits — the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social — must give same-sex couples who are married or registered under state civil union laws all the same benefits of opposite-sex couples.

The ruling specifically addressed the question of whether someone whose spouse dies is entitled to survivor’s benefits under Mexico’s Social Security law, which includes pensions and access to medical services. The case was initially brought by a couple who were refused the right to enroll in full spousal benefits, but one of them died before the case was decided.

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