Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025
Latest action · Mar 26, 2025 Subcommittee Hearings Held
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 14, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase the amounts payable for wartime disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. Specifically, the VA must increase the amounts by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase in benefits for Social Security recipients that is effective on December 1, 2025. The bill requires the VA to publish the amounts payable, as increased, in the Federal Register.
The VA is authorized to make a similar adjustment to the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who have not received compensation for service-connected disability or death.
Cosponsors 12
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 14, 2025 to Jul 14, 2026; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TX | August Pfluger | Original | Mar 14, 2025 |
| D-KY | Morgan McGarvey | Original | Mar 14, 2025 |
| R-TX | Randy K. Weber, Sr. | Original | Mar 14, 2025 |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Jul 23, 2025 | |
| D-CO | Brittany Pettersen | Aug 15, 2025 | |
| D-RI | Seth Magaziner | Oct 3, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Laura Gillen | Oct 10, 2025 | |
| D-VA | Eugene Simon Vindman | Oct 21, 2025 | |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | Oct 31, 2025 | |
| D-MN | Kelly Morrison | Nov 17, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Timothy M. Kennedy | Nov 17, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Josh Riley | Jul 14, 2026 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Mar 14, 2025 |
| Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Mar 26, 2025Hearings Mar 26, 2025 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 26, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
- Mar 26, 2025Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Mar 14, 2025Introduced in House
- Mar 14, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 49, March 14, 2025, page H1163.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 119-14 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING91 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Mar 26, 2025 |
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2392 | Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025 | Identical bill | Nov 25, 2025 |
| S 4487 | Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2026 | Related bill | May 11, 2026 |
| HR 8552 | Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2026 | Related bill | Jun 30, 2026 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To increase, effective as of December 1, 2025, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 14, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
