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GUARD VA Benefits Act

Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to reinstate penalties for persons charging veterans unauthorized fees relating to claims for benefits under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This bill imposes fines on individuals for soliciting, contracting for, charging, or receiving any unauthorized fee or compensation with respect to the preparation, presentation, or prosecution of any claim for Department of Veterans Affairs benefits. The attempted commission of such offenses is also punishable by fine.

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Timeline

  1. House committee actionsSubcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Discharged
  2. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
  3. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  4. House floor actionsReferred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  5. Introduced
  6. Committee

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