§5510 Annual Report

Summary

The Secretary must put information about fiduciaries who receive Department payments into the Veterans Benefits Administration Annual Benefits Report or the Secretary’s Annual Performance and Accountability Report. The report must include ten kinds of information: how many beneficiaries are in each category (veteran, surviving spouse, child, adult disabled child, parent); the types of benefits paid (compensation, pension, dependency and indemnity compensation, death pension, and benefits for a disabled child under chapter 18); the total and average annual amounts paid to fiduciaries by beneficiary and benefit type; counts of fiduciaries by relationship (spouse, parent, legal custodian, court‑appointed, institutional, custodian in fact, supervised direct payees); how many fiduciaries were changed for misuse and how misuse was handled; final outcomes including how many payments were reissued and the dollar amounts; how many cases were referred to the Office of the Inspector General and what actions were taken; the total money recovered by the Government; and any other information the Secretary thinks appropriate.