H.R. 7777 · 118th Congress
Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2024
Law · 118-130 · Nov 25, 2024Key: what the circles and colors mean
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- House Introduced Mar 21, 2024
- House Passed Sep 17, 2024
- Senate Passed Sep 25, 2024
- President To the President Nov 15, 2024
- President Signed Nov 25, 2024
- Law Nov 25, 2024
This act requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase the amounts payable for wartime disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children.
What it does: CRS summary · Public Law · Nov 25, 2024
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2024
This act requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase the amounts payable for wartime disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. Specifically, the VA must increase the amounts by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase in benefits for Social Security recipients that is effective on December 1, 2024. The act requires the VA to publish the amounts payable, as increased, in the Federal Register.
The VA is authorized to make a similar adjustment to the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who have not received compensation for service-connected disability or death.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2024
Latest action (Nov 25, 2024): Became Public Law No: 118-130.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security · Origin: House · Introduced: Mar 21, 2024
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
- House Introduced Mar 21, 2024
- House Passed Sep 17, 2024
- Senate Passed Sep 25, 2024
- President To the President Nov 15, 2024
- President Signed Nov 25, 2024
- Law Nov 25, 2024
No recorded floor vote found.