§5510 Annual Report

Summary

Each year the Secretary must put into the VA’s annual report information about fiduciaries who get payments for Department beneficiaries. The report must show how many beneficiaries are in these groups: veteran, surviving spouse, child, adult disabled child, and parent; what benefits are paid (compensation, pension, dependency and indemnity compensation, death pension, and chapter 18 benefits); and the total and average yearly amounts paid to fiduciaries for each group and benefit. The report must also show how many fiduciaries are spouses, parents, legal custodians, court‑appointed or institutional fiduciaries, custodians in fact, and supervised direct payees; how many fiduciaries were replaced for misusing benefits and how those cases were handled and resolved (including numbers and dollar amounts reissued); how many cases were referred to the Office of the Inspector General and what actions it took; the total money recovered; and any other information the Secretary finds appropriate.