Signed into law
Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025
This 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.
- Measure
- S. 2392 · 119th Congress
- Latest action
- November 25, 2025
- Policy changes
- 1
- Source
- CRS summary (Public Law) · Congress.gov
Became Public Law No: 119-42.
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Congressional Budget Office estimate
September 5, 2025 · As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 30, 2025 · Read CBO’s estimate
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Who wrote it
Sponsor
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)Joined by 22 cosponsors, 15 of them from the day it was introduced. Introduced July 23, 2025.
All 22 cosponsors
- Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) · original
- Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) · original
- Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) · original
- Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) · original
- Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) · original
- Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) · original
- Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) · original
- Sen. Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH) · original
- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) · original
- Sen. Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME) · original
- Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) · original
- Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) · original
- Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) · original
- Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) · original
- Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) · original
- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
- Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Sen. Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
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Provision 1
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.
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