Title: Home for the Brave Act of 2021
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Home for the Brave Act of 2021
This bill excludes from income veterans' service-connected disability or death benefits for purposes of determinations made in connection with the Department of Housing and Urban Development's housing assistance programs.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4503 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4503

 To exclude from consideration as income under the housing assistance 
  programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development amounts 
   received by a family from the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
 service-related disabilities of a member of the family, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2021

 Mr. Carbajal (for himself, Mr. Smucker, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Norton, 
 Mr. Harder of California, Mrs. Axne, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. 
Peters, Mr. Garbarino, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Garcia 
    of Illinois, Mr. Meuser, Mr. Soto, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Case, Mr. 
 Swalwell, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Chu, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Luria, Mr. Keating, 
Mr. Carson, Mr. Sires, Ms. Newman, Mr. Golden, Mr. C. Scott Franklin of 
Florida, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Ryan, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Lamb, Mr. Panetta, 
and Mr. Crow) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To exclude from consideration as income under the housing assistance 
  programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development amounts 
   received by a family from the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
 service-related disabilities of a member of the family, 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 ``Home for the Brave Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF VETERANS DISABILITY BENEFITS FROM INCOME.

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3531 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 15. EXCLUSION OF VETERANS DISABILITY BENEFITS FROM INCOME.

    ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amounts received 
by any member of a household or family as disability compensation under 
chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, or dependency and indemnity 
compensation under chapter 13 of such title, shall not be considered as 
income of such household or family for purposes of--
            ``(1) determining the eligibility of such family or 
        household for assistance under any program for housing 
        assistance administered by the Secretary;
            ``(2) the amount of benefits payable to or on behalf of 
        such family or household under such program; or
            ``(3) the amount of rent paid by such family or household 
        for occupancy of a dwelling unit assisted under any such 
        program.''.
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