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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 nearly 400-acre campus was donated by deed to the VA in 1887 as a “soldiers home” for disabled volunteer service members. By the 1920s, 4,000 veterans were housed on the property.
A key provision in the bill, named after the former senator and veterans caregiver advocate Elizebeth Dole, seeks to make home nursing care more affordable for veterans by increasing the VA's ...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Thursday that it will change a rule that counts service-related disability benefits as income, often excluding veterans from housing ...
The Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act is a bill that would suspend the United States debt ceiling until March 15, 2015. [1] There would be no statutory limit on the amount of money the government is allowed to borrow between now and then. The current cap on borrowing is $17.2 trillion. [2]
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [1]The Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2014 would direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, as of December 1, 2014, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain ...
Republicans and Democrats are far apart over how to increase the debt ceiling. The $31.4 trillion limit was reached in January and Treasury has since been taking what it calls extraordinary steps ...
Housing: 2023’s Housing Correction Could Be the Largest Since Post-WWII. ... In sum, Congress will need to pass a decision to increase the debt limit, or ceiling, in order to pay off loans it ...