Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act

United States117th CongressHR-5966House of Representatives
Updated: Nov 29, 2021

Summary

Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay certain reissued benefits (i.e., benefits that were misused by a fiduciary) to a beneficiary's estate in situations where a beneficiary predeceases a payment. The VA must pay such benefits to an individual or entity in the following order: the estate of the beneficiary, a successor fiduciary serving the beneficiary when the beneficiary died, or the next inheritor determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.

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S-3994: Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act of 2022

Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.

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

    House of Representatives

  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

    House of Representatives

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