Title: Aid and Attendance Support Act of 2021
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Aid and Attendance Support Act of 2021
This bill increases the amount of specified Department of Veterans Affairs benefit payments for veterans (or their survivors) who require aid at home or are in nursing homes. Specifically, the bill increases such benefits by 25% until 60 days after the end of the declared emergency period resulting from COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 219 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 219

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase the amount of 
 certain payments during the emergency period resulting from the COVID-
                  19 pandemic, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 4, 2021

 Ms. Cortez Masto introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
           and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase the amount of 
 certain payments during the emergency period resulting from the COVID-
                  19 pandemic, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Aid and Attendance Support Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE OF AMOUNT OF CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
              PAYMENTS DURING EMERGENCY PERIOD RESULTING FROM COVID-19 
              PANDEMIC.

    (a) In General.--During the covered period, the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs shall apply each of the following provisions of title 
38, United States Code, by substituting for each of the dollar amounts 
in such provision the amount equal to 125 percent of the dollar amount 
that was in effect under such provision on the day before the date of 
the enactment of this Act:
            (1) Subsections (l), (m), (r), and (t) of section 1114.
            (2) Paragraph (1)(E) of section 1115.
            (3) Subsection (c) of section 1311.
            (4) Subsection (g) of section 1315.
            (5) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (d) of section 
        1521.
            (6) Paragraphs (2) and (4) of subsection (f) of section 
        1521.
    (b) Treatment of Amounts.--Any amount payable to an individual 
under subsection (a) in excess of the amount otherwise in effect shall 
be in addition to any other benefit or any other amount payable to that 
individual under any provision of law referred to in subsection (a) or 
any other provision of law administered by the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs.
    (c) Covered Period.--In this section, the covered period is the 
period that begins on the date of the enactment of this Act and ends 60 
days after the last day of the emergency period (as defined in section 
1135(g)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-5(g)(1))) 
resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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