Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act

Bill: 117-hr-5966
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Trone, David J. [D-MD-6]
Introduced: 2021-11-12
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Veterans' pensions and compensation
Latest action: action_date: 2021-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-11-12
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act</strong></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay certain reissued benefits (i.e., benefits that were misused by a fiduciary) to a beneficiary's estate in situations where a beneficiary predeceases a payment.</p> <p>The VA must pay such benefits to an individual or entity in the following order: the estate of the beneficiary, a successor fiduciary serving the beneficiary when the beneficiary died, or the next inheritor determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5966 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 12, 2021 Mr. Trone (for himself and Mr. Emmer ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to repay the estates of deceased beneficiaries for certain benefits paid by the Secretary and misused by fiduciaries of such beneficiaries.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act . 2. Repayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of estates of deceased beneficiaries for certain benefits paid by the Secretary and misused by fiduciaries Section 6107 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively; (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection (c): (c) Reissuance of amounts in the case of a deceased beneficiary (1) If a beneficiary described in subsection (a) predeceases a payment under subsection (a) or (b), the Secretary shall pay such benefits, subject to paragraph (2), to an individual or entity in the following order: (A) The estate of the beneficiary. (B) A successor fiduciary serving the beneficiary when the beneficiary died. (C) The next inheritor determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. (2) The Secretary may not make a payment under this subsection to a fiduciary who misused benefits of the beneficiary. ; and (3) in subsection (e), as redesdignated, by striking subsection (a) or (b) and inserting this section .