To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide timely equitable relief to an individual who suffers a loss based on an administrative error by the Secretary, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Derrick Van Orden (Republican-WI)February 5, 2025

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Requires the VA to quickly fix its errors and cancel wrongful debt collection for veterans.

This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to act faster when it makes administrative errors. It would make sure that if the VA causes someone a loss due to a mistake, they must provide a fix within 120 days after the VA determines the error. It would also force the VA to quickly cancel any debt collection agreements if the debt was wrongly determined.

What Would Change

Today, the VA can provide solutions for administrative errors, but it's not required to, and there's no deadline. Also, the VA isn't explicitly required to cancel debt collection agreements for mistaken debts. After this bill, the VA would be required to provide solutions within 120 days of finding an error. It would also have to promptly cancel debt collection agreements if the debt was a mistake.

Key Provisions

Requires the VA to provide fair solutions for its administrative errors within 120 days of determining the error.
Requires the VA to promptly cancel debt collection agreements if the debt was a mistake.

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