Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act
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.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Nov 12, 2021
Last action Nov 29, 2021
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Total actions
3
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Committee
2
Nov 29, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
lower
Nov 12, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
lower
Nov 12, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
David J. Trone
DDemocratic
Co
Alexander X. Mooney
RRepublican
Co
Fred Keller
RRepublican
Co
Tom Emmer
RRepublican
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