Aid and Attendance Support Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-219
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-02-04
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Disability assistance

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Hospital care

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Veterans' medical care

Veterans' pensions and compensation
Latest action: action_date: 2021-04-28
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-02-04
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Aid and Attendance Support Act</b> <b>of 2021</b></p> <p>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).</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 219 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Aid and Attendance Support Act of 2021 . 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.