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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 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
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Passed Senate
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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
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 March 27, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 2 Republican 2
Delaney, John
· Dec 17, 2018
 D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Mar 10, 2017
Chaffetz, Jason
· Mar 10, 2017
Curbelo, Carlos
· Mar 10, 2017
 D
Garamendi, John
California · Mar 10, 2017
 R
Hill, J. French
Arkansas · Mar 10, 2017
 R
Rouzer, David
North Carolina · Mar 10, 2017
Yoder, Kevin
· Mar 10, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1495: Fair Treatment for Families of Veterans Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1495/
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"H.R. 1495: Fair Treatment for Families of Veterans Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1495/.
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H.R. 1495, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1495/.
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