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Amends 38 U.S.C. 5503(d)(7) by striking 'November 30, 2031' and inserting 'January 30, 2032'.
Adds a new section 325 to title 38 establishing a Veterans Scam and Fraud Evasion Officer in the Department and specifying duties related to fraud and scam prevention, reporting, coordination, training, and communications.
Creates a Veterans Scam and Fraud Evasion Officer within the Department of Veterans Affairs to lead and coordinate VA efforts to prevent, detect, report, and respond to scams and fraud affecting veterans and their families, serve as a central point of contact and public resource, and work with the VA Office of Inspector General, other federal agencies, and state, local, tribal partners and veteran service organizations. Also amends a veterans pension statute to change a date from November 30, 2031 to January 30, 2032, extending the statutory deadline in that provision by two months.
Creates a Veterans Scam and Fraud Evasion Officer position within the Department (new 38 U.S.C. section 325).
Make the Officer responsible for fraud and scam prevention, reporting, and incident response plans at the Department.
Make the Officer the central point of contact to direct veterans to resources to prevent and mitigate fraud and scams.
Require the Officer to provide comprehensive communications from the Secretary to Department employees and to veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors during strategic and time‑sensitive fraud and scam incidents.
Require the Officer to establish consistent guidance across the enterprise for employees and for veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors on how to identify, report, and avoid fraud and scam attempts.
Primary impacts are administrative and service-oriented rather than financial. Veterans, their families, and caregivers should benefit from clearer, centralized VA leadership on scams and fraud, improved outreach and training, and more coordinated referrals to existing resources like the VSAFE Fraud Hotline. VA staff will need to allocate time to support the Officer’s activities; because the bill states it does not increase authorized FTEs, VA may reassign or reprioritize existing personnel to implement the role and its programs. The Office of Inspector General and other federal partners will engage in coordination and information sharing; the change explicitly preserves OIG authority. The date change in the pension statute is a narrow, technical amendment that delays a statutory deadline by two months and has limited programmatic impact beyond timing adjustments for any actions tied to that date. Overall, the measure strengthens anti‑fraud coordination for veterans with minimal direct budgetary effect unless separate funding is later provided.
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VSAFE Act of 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced July 29, 2025 by John Cornyn · Last progress July 29, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in Senate