Many Employers Keeping Domestic Partner Benefits

Many employers are likely to continue offering benefits to same-sex and opposite-sex domestic partners following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision on same-sex marriage, according to a survey released July 9.

Of the 57.4 percent of 258 companies surveyed that currently offer benefits to same-sex domestic partners, 23.6 percent said they “definitely will” continue offering those benefits and 26.4 percent said they are “very likely” to, according to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans in a breakdown of its survey results.

Just 6.1 percent of those surveyed said they won’t keep those benefits and 8.8 percent said they aren’t ...