Code · BILL · 119th Congress · S. 4162 (Introduced in Senate) — To improve the provision of services from the Department of Veterans Affairs to incarcerated veterans, and for other... · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Automatic resumption of payment of compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation to persons incarcerated for conviction of a felony after period of incarceration ends

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Section 5313(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary shall ensure that, for any individual whose receipt of compensation or dependency and indemnity compensation is interrupted pursuant to paragraph

(1)for a period of incarceration, resumption of such payments resume automatically on the date on which the individual is released from incarceration. . The amendment made by subsection

(a)shall take effect on the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.