HR 1495
115th Congress
House
Armed Forces and National Security
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Fair Treatment for Families of Veterans Act
Introduced: March 10, 2017
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Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 27, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Mar 27, 2017
Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
Mar 27, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 10, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Mar 10, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Fair Treatment for Families of Veterans Act
This bill changes the effective date for reductions or discontinuances of Department of Veterans Affairs dependency and indemnity compensation by reason of the death of a payee from the last day of the month before death to the last day of the month of death.
A veteran's surviving spouse who receives both dependency/indemnity compensation and service- or non-service-connected disability/death payments for the month of the veteran's death shall be entitled to the greater of the two payments.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
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