Direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide timely equitable relief to an individual who suffers a loss based on an administrative…
H.R. 7971118th Congress

Direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide timely equitable relief to an individual who suffers a loss based on an administrative…

Introduced in the HouseRep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-3)4 sections · 1 min read
Version: ih · Apr 20, 2026

(a) Affirmative duty To provide timely equitable relief

Section 503 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking may both places it appears and inserting shall, not later than 120 days after such determination,.

(b) Elimination of expired report

Such section is further amended by striking subsection (c).

(c) Cancellation of debt collection

Section 5314 of such title is amended, in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

(3) The Secretary shall promptly cancel any agreement, entered into by the Secretary with a debt collector (as defined in section 803 of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. 1692a)) to collect an amount of indebtedness described in paragraph (1), if the Secretary determines that the determination of such indebtedness was in error.

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