Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Connolly
Became Law
Summary
This law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to reimburse veterans or their lawful successors when a fiduciary misuses VA benefits and then try to recover those funds from the fiduciary. It creates a new Section 6107 that limits payments to the amount misused and sets rules for payments to heirs or successor fiduciaries when a beneficiary dies before a reimbursement is made.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
VA repays veterans for misused benefits
The law requires VA to repay you for VA benefits your fiduciary misused, up to the full amount taken. VA pays you or your new fiduciary, not the person who misused the money. If you die before payment, VA pays eligible survivors under 38 U.S.C. §5121. VA must try to recover the money from the bad fiduciary and send you any recovered amounts not already paid. VA cannot delay payment while it reviews possible VA negligence, and it will set rules for those reviews. Effective upon enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Connolly
VA • D
Cosponsors
Ciscomani
AZ • R
Sponsored 3/6/2025
Rep. Murphy, Gregory F. [R-NC-3]
NC • R
Sponsored 3/6/2025
Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3]
IA • R
Sponsored 3/6/2025
Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]
OR • D
Sponsored 3/6/2025
Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]
MI • D
Sponsored 3/6/2025
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 3/21/2025
Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9]
CA • D
Sponsored 4/7/2025
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