[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2625 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2625

   To ensure that deferred Department of Veterans Affairs disability 
   benefits that are received in a lump sum amount or in prospective 
 monthly amounts, be excluded from consideration as annual income when 
        determining eligibility for low-income housing programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2008

  Mr. Harkin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To ensure that deferred Department of Veterans Affairs disability 
   benefits that are received in a lump sum amount or in prospective 
 monthly amounts, be excluded from consideration as annual income when 
        determining eligibility for low-income housing programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness in Housing for Disabled 
Veterans Act.''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF ANNUAL INCOME FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 8 AND OTHER 
              PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAMS.

    Section 3(b)(4) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437a(3)(b)(4)) is amended by inserting ``or any deferred Department of 
Veterans Affairs disability benefits that are received in a lump sum 
amount or in prospective monthly amounts'' before ``may not be 
considered''.
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