I personally knew people when I lived in NY who signed up friends as their "domestic partner" to get benefits when the city extended city worker benefits to "domestic partners" some years ago [[which is a great deal of money; NYC has 460,000 direct city employees). At the time, the reasoning was that it needed to be done to be fair to gay couples. Interestingly, now that gay marriage is legal, there has been no effort to require marriage for benefits. And there never will be. Once you can hook up another mouth to the taxpayer tit, why change it?
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