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There were two same-sex couples with identical financial resources. They each had the same amount of money, identical investments, identical taxes, and identical earnings history for social security purposes.

The first couple didn’t do any planning. The second couple followed the advice offered in Retire Secure for Same Sex Couples. Doing reasonable projections, in 28 years the first couple runs out of money while the second couple has $1.4 million dollars and their portfolio…