Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act
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1Short title
This section would let the Act be called the Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act .
2Service connected disability compensation
This section would add a new rule to section 102(a)(20) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Under the new rule, when a State, a unit of general local government, or an Indian tribe decides whether a person counts as a person of low and moderate income, a person of low income, or a person of moderate income for that law, it would have to leave out any service-connected disability compensation the person receives from the Department of Veterans Affairs. That VA compensation would no longer count toward the person's income for that determination.
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2. Service connected disability compensation Section 102(a)(20) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 ( 42 U.S.C. 5302(a)(20) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (C) Service-connected disability compensation When determining whether a person is a person of low and moderate income, a person of low income, or a person of moderate income under this paragraph, a State, unit of general local government, or Indian tribe shall exclude any service-connected disability compensation received by such person from the Department of Veterans Affairs. .
3Report
This section would require the Comptroller General of the United States to submit a report to Congress no later than 1 year after the Act becomes law. The report would have to do three things: (1) examine how service-connected disability compensation is treated when determining eligibility for all programs run by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; (2) identify any cases where that compensation is treated in a way that does not match the rule created by section 2; and (3) for each HUD program found to treat the compensation inconsistently, give legislative recommendations on how that program could better serve veterans and under-served communities.
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3. Report The Comptroller General of the United States shall, not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, submit to the Congress a report that— (1) examines how service-connected disability compensation is treated for the purposes of determining eligibility for all programs administered by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; (2) identifies any instances where service-connected disability compensation is treated in a manner inconsistent with the amendment made by section 2; and (3) with respect to each program administered by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in which service-connected disability compensation is treated inconsistently, provides legislative recommendations relating to how such program could better serve veteran populations, and under-served communities.
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In the House.