Sec. 2. Treatment of certain Department of Veterans Affairs benefits in determining income for purposes of entering into residential leases
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Title III of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act ( 50 U.S.C. 3951 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: In determining whether a covered individual has an income sufficient to enter into a lease of premises for a residential purpose, the landlord (or other person with paramount title) of the premises shall treat any benefits received by the covered individual under any of chapters 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, or 36 of title 38, United States Code, or chapters 1606 or 1607 of title 10, United States Code, as income.
A person who knowingly takes an action contrary to this section, or attempts to do so, shall be fined as provided in title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. In this section, the term covered individual means a servicemember, veteran, or a spouse or child of a servicemember or veteran. . The table of contents at the beginning of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 308 the following new item: Sec. 309. Treatment of certain Department of Veterans Affairs benefits in determining income for purposes of entering into residential leases. .
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Treatment of certain Department of Veterans Affairs benefits in determining income for purposes of entering into residential leases
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