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Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act of 2025
Summary
This bill amends Veterans Affairs law to improve how the VA repays veterans when a fiduciary misuses their benefits. The VA Secretary must repay the veteran or successor fiduciary for any benefits misused by the original fiduciary. The VA must make good faith efforts to recover the misused amounts from the fiduciary and promptly remit any recovered funds to the veteran. If the veteran dies before receiving the reissued payment, the funds go to the designated recipient under existing law, except the original fiduciary cannot receive payment. The bill requires the VA to establish methods for determining whether the misuse resulted from VA negligence, but prohibits delaying the reissued benefit payment while making this determination.
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Actions (17)
- Dec 12, 2025 Became Public Law No: 119-56.
- Dec 12, 2025 Signed by President.
- Dec 3, 2025 Presented to President. · house
- Nov 20, 2025 Message on Senate action sent to the House. · senate
- Nov 20, 2025 Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8400) · senate
- Nov 20, 2025 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- Nov 20, 2025 Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. · senate
- May 6, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · senate
- May 5, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
- May 5, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1817-1818) · house
- May 5, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1817-1818: 1)
- May 5, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1912. · house
- May 5, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1817-1819) · house
- May 5, 2025 Mr. Bergman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. · house
- Mar 27, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. · house
- Mar 6, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · house
- Mar 6, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
An Act
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the repayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of benefits misused by a fiduciary, 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 “Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENT TO REPAYMENT BY SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS OF CERTAIN MISUSED BENEFITS. Section 6107 of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 6107. Reissuance of benefits
“(a) Reissuance of Misused Benefits.—(1) In any case in which a fiduciary misuses all or part of an individual’s benefit paid to such fiduciary, the Secretary shall pay to the beneficiary or the beneficiary’s successor fiduciary an amount equal to the amount of such benefit so misused.
“(2) In any case in which the Secretary reissues a benefit payment (in whole or in part) under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall make a good faith effort to obtain recoupment from the fiduciary to whom the payment was originally made.
“(3) In any case in which the Secretary obtains recoupment from a fiduciary who has misused benefits, the Secretary shall promptly remit payment of the recouped amounts to the beneficiary or the beneficiary’s successor fiduciary, as the case may be, to the extent that such amounts have not been paid under paragraph (1).
“(b) Reissuance of Amounts in the Case of a Deceased Beneficiary.—(1) If a beneficiary described in subsection (a)(1) predeceases a payment under such subsection, the Secretary shall pay such amount, subject to paragraph (2), to an individual or entity in accordance with section 5121 of this title.
“(2) The Secretary may not make a payment under this subsection to a fiduciary who misused benefits of the beneficiary.
“(c) Limitation on Total Amount Paid.—The total of the amounts paid to a beneficiary or the beneficiary’s successor fiduciary under this section may not exceed the total benefit amount misused by the fiduciary with respect to that beneficiary.
“(d) Oversight of Negligence.—(1) The Secretary shall establish methods and timing with respect to determining whether an instance of misuse by a fiduciary, of all or part of an individual’s benefit paid to such fiduciary, is the result of negligence by the Secretary.
“(2) The Secretary may not withhold the reissuing of a benefit payment under subsection (a)(1) by reason of a pending determination under paragraph (1).
“(3) The Secretary is not required to make a determination under paragraph (1) for each instance of misuse by a fiduciary, of all or part of an individual’s benefit paid to such fiduciary.”.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.
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