Mish, thank you indeed, for writing.

I agree, contracts often half a dozen pages long, describe in fine print and excruciating detail, all the conditions that will make you ineligible for compensation. If one spouse has already the ‘married’ status benefits, it will be up to the other spouse to ‘fight’ for additional benefits to be embedded in the salary.

It is also fair, to receive ‘one’ allowance for housing, if you are a married coupled, but there are other benefits such as ‘transportation’? which should be granted regardless.