Delgado's First Bill Extends

Veteran Benefits To Spouse

WASHINGTON – Otsego County's new congressman today introduced his first bill.

The bipartisan Service-Disabled Veterans Small Business Continuation Act was introduced by Delgado, along with Committee on Small Business Ranking Member Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., and Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., the congressman's office announced today.

It would provide the surviving spouse of a service-disabled veteran with federal contracting preference as a "Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business" with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA). This could be seen as similar to Social Security and death in which surviving spouses could be entitled to the Social Security Benefits of their deceased spouses.