S 3994
117th Congress
Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act of 2022
Introduced: April 5, 2022
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 13, 2022
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
Apr 5, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Apr 5, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act of 2022
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.
What's happening now
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1