Ensuring Survivors Benefits during COVID–19 Act of 2020

United States116th CongressHR-8484House of Representatives
Updated: Oct 1, 2020

Summary

Ensuring Survivors Benefits during COVID-19 Act of 2020 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to get a medical opinion to determine if a service-connected disability was the principal or contributory cause of death in situations where the death certificate of a veteran with a service-connected disability who has filed a claim for dependency and indemnity compensation (1) identifies COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) as the principal or contributory cause of death, and (2) does not clearly identify the service-connected disability as the principal or contributory cause of death.

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S-4166: Ensuring Survivors Benefits during COVID–19 Act of 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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