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A previous version of this bill, called the Vulnerable Veterans Housing Reform Act of 2012 , was passed by the House in 2012. [2] [3] Although the bill passed the House, it never passed the Senate, and therefore "died" in the 112th United States Congress. [4] The bill was then reintroduced in the 113th Congress as H.R. 825. [4]
The new policy also requires public housing agencies that administer HUD-VASH vouchers to set the income eligibility for veterans at 80% of the area median income, up from the 50% that generally ...
In December 2010 Congress passed the Post-9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2010. The new law, often referred to as GI Bill 2.0, expands eligibility for members of the National Guard to include time served on Title 32 or in the full-time Active Guard and Reserve (AGR).
The bipartisan bill would have continued protections for low-income Americans who had their food stamp benefits stolen, often through skimming devices that get recipients’ Electronic Benefits ...
Many programs and resources have been implemented across the United States in an effort to help homeless veterans. [19]HUD-VASH, a housing voucher program by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Administration, gives out a certain number of Section 8 subsidized housing vouchers to eligible homeless and otherwise vulnerable U.S. Armed Forces veterans.
The main Section 8 program involves the voucher program. A voucher may be either "project-based"—where its use is limited to a specific apartment complex (public housing agencies (PHAs) may reserve up to 20% of its vouchers as such [11])—or "tenant-based", where the tenant is free to choose a unit in the private sector, is not limited to specific complexes, and may reside anywhere in the ...
The government needs to borrow money to continue paying out what Congress has already approved, but the debt ceiling puts a limit on how much money the U.S. government can borrow to pay its bills.
Regular appropriations bills are the twelve standard bills that cover the funding for the federal government for one fiscal year and that are supposed to be enacted into law by October 1. [4] If Congress has not enacted the regular appropriations bills by the time, it can pass a continuing resolution, which continues the pre-existing ...