Veterans Readiness and Employment Improvement and Accountability Act

This bill changes federal vocational rehabilitation and employment programs for veterans with service-connected disabilities. It lets the Secretary of Veterans Affairs bar people convicted of assaulting, resisting, or impeding a VA officer or employee from certain education and rehabilitation benefits. It requires Secretary approval for equipment payments over $5,000, caps federal funds for a rehabilitation program at $250,000 with yearly adjustments, and allows a veteran's subsistence allowance to be based on their home location if it is more than 25 miles from the school. It also extends eligibility for veterans who do not find work in their trained field within a year, calls for an employment counselor at each VA regional office where practicable, and makes veterans in a vocational rehabilitation program ineligible for disability compensation rated as total based on individual unemployability.

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Sponsors

• Derrick Van Orden Republican sponsor
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