This bill became law on 2025-11-25 as Public Law No. 119-42.
The summary below describes the bill at the version we last reviewed; the enacted text may differ.
Veterans with service-connected disabilities and surviving family members receiving dependency and indemnity compensation (monthly payments to survivors of veterans who died from a service-related cause) would receive a cost-of-living pay increase effective December 1, 2025, under this law. The increase is tied to the same annual Social Security COLA adjustment, ensuring veterans' compensation keeps pace with inflation alongside other federal benefits. Affected payments include disability compensation for wartime injuries, additional allowances for dependents, a clothing allowance for certain severe disabilities, and compensation to surviving spouses and children. The VA is required to publish the updated dollar amounts in the Federal Register.
Congressional Summary
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025This act 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 act 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.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Became Public Law No: 119-42.
- Action Date
- 2025-11-25
- Date Added
- 2026-04-10
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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