Veterans Appeals Efficiency Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Bost
In Committee
Summary
Speed up VA benefits claims and appeals. This bill would require new reporting, tracking, and procedural changes to shorten wait times, improve docket management, and expand review options for class-style claims.
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- Veterans and families: VA would have to publish annual reports within 1 year on average time claims remain after Board remands, the number of docket-advance motions under 7107(b) with outcomes, and appeals dismissed by death including suicide. The bill also mandates tracking of remanded claims, National Work Queue items, hearings, supplemental claims after final denial, and first death notices with fiduciary status.
- Board and courts: The Chairman of the Board would be authorized to aggregate appeals that share legal or factual questions and must report on aggregation and efficiency. The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims would gain limited supplemental jurisdiction in some class-certification proceedings and the bill would allow class-action administrative review requests and toll Board decision deadlines in certain situations.
- VA administration and oversight: VA would have to issue guidelines within 1 year for motions to advance cases on the Board docket and deploy technology to track claims and compliance with remands. The bill also requires an AI-enabled study identifying common questions for precedential guidance and an independent assessment by a federally funded research and development center with set timelines to evaluate precedential authority and aggregation rules.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Court review for some class claims
The veterans appeals court could hear some class-related benefits claims. This would apply when the agency issued a nonfinal decision and the claimant filed a notice of disagreement. It would also apply when a supplemental claim is filed within one year of a Board decision. If enacted, this could let groups of claimants seek joint review in some cases. The change would take effect upon enactment.
Faster Board appeals and remands
This bill would let the Board group appeals that raise the same issues. Grouping could include joinder, consolidation, or class actions. The authority would take effect at enactment and be used after VA sets required policies. VA would need to make sure agencies follow Board remand orders. A Board member could waive only if new evidence fixes the issue or the remand was not needed, and must say so in the decision. Within one year, VA would set rules for asking to move a case up the docket and what evidence to submit.
More tracking of VA claims delays
VA would use technology to track claims and how long they take. Tracking would cover remands, expeditious treatment cases, the National Work Queue, pending Board hearings, and supplemental claims after final decisions. VA would record when adjudicators do not follow Board remand orders. VA would also track first death notices and whether a fiduciary was assigned. VA would send Congress a yearly report with this data, starting within one year. VA would also send a yearly report on remand wait times, motions to advance by outcome and reason, and Board dismissals, including if due to death and, if so, suicide.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Bost
IL • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-39]
CA • D
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Valadao
CA • R
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Bilirakis
FL • R
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Rep. James, John [R-MI-10]
MI • R
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
NE • R
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]
NY • R
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21]
NY • R
Sponsored 6/12/2025
Kean
NJ • R
Sponsored 6/25/2025
Rep. Barrett, Tom [R-MI-7]
MI • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6]
CO • D
Sponsored 8/8/2025
Barr
KY • R
Sponsored 9/2/2025
Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
CO • D
Sponsored 10/31/2025
Gillen
NY • D
Sponsored 2/2/2026
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