Veterans' Issues
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume I: Larger Reductions
CBO issues a volume describing 17 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $300 billion over the next 10 years or, in the case of Social Security options, have a comparably large effect in later decades.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume II: Smaller Reductions
CBO issues a volume that contains short descriptions of 59 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by less than $300 billion over the next 10 years.
- Report
Statement for the Record Regarding How CBO Would Estimate the Effects of Future Authorizing Legislation on Spending From the Toxic Exposures Fund
CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, provides a written statement to the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs about how the agency would estimate the effects of future authorizing legislation on spending from the toxic exposures fund.
- Cost Estimate
S. 2089, Burial Equity for Guards and Reserves Act of 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on December 15, 2021
- Cost Estimate
S. 1664, Department of Veterans Affairs Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Processing Claims Improvement Act of 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on December 15, 2021
- Cost Estimate
S. 1850, Chaplains Memorial Preservation Act
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on December 15, 2021
- Report
The Veterans Community Care Program: Background and Early Effects
CBO describes how the Department of Veterans Affairs provides health care to many veterans through the Veterans Community Care Program and how that program has affected veterans’ access to care and other outcomes.
- Cost Estimate
S. 1875, Veterans’ Emergency Care Claims Parity Act
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on
July 28, 2021 - Report
The Role of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Single-Family Mortgage Market
CBO describes VA’s mortgage guarantee program, provides estimates of the budgetary costs of the program, and compares those costs with expenditures for other federal guarantees.
- Cost Estimate
S. 89, Ensuring Survivor Benefits During COVID-19 Act of 2021
As passed by the Senate on July 21, 2021