Bill > HR7952

This bill, the Veteran Benefits Enhancement and Expansion Act of 2020, makes several improvements to laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) relating to education, burial benefits, and other matters. The key provisions include: - Expanding eligibility for the Fry Scholarship (which provides education benefits to children and spouses of certain deceased service members) to include children and spouses of certain deceased members of the Armed Forces who died on active duty or in the Selected Reserve. - Changing the enrollment period for the All-Volunteer Educational Assistance Program and phasing out that program. - Requiring public institutions of higher learning to provide information on their requirements for in-state tuition rates for veterans. - Expanding the types of work-study activities that veterans can perform through the VA's educational assistance programs to include outreach services provided through congressional offices. - Increasing certain funeral and burial benefits for veterans, including transportation to veterans cemeteries and the provision of outer burial receptacles and inscriptions for spouses and children on headstones. - Addressing the financial exploitation of veterans receiving VA pension benefits, including by requiring the VA to develop a plan to assess and address such exploitation. - Modernizing the VA's service-disabled veterans insurance program by establishing a new program with updated policies and procedures.

Health and Social Services, Military Affairs and Security

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7952/all-info