The woman who brought down the Defense of Marriage Act will soon get back thousands of dollars her same-sex marriage cost her.

Following Edie Windsor’s Supreme Court victory last month challenging
DOMA, which denied federal recognition to same-sex couples, Democratic
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced New York would refund estate
taxes paid by surviving spouses of same-sex marriages. The refunds will
be offered to those whose spouses died as recently as 2008, reports the Daily News,
three years before New York legalized same-sex marriage. As the
governor’s office points out, three years is the typical limit for a
taxpayer to file an estate tax claim, credit, or refund.

Cuomo called the compensation “one more step toward justice” in a press release.