Pub. L. 109-114, tit. II, sec. 223

Pub. L. 109-114, tit. II, sec. 223

EnactedYear: 2005Length: 219 wordsOfficial source
Sec. 223. None of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act may be used—(1) with respect to the 2,100 compensation cases identified in the Scope and Methodology description in VA Inspector General Report No. 05–00765–137 as having been reviewed by the Office of Inspector General—(A) to retroactively revoke or reduce a veteran’s disability compensation payments for post traumatic stress disorder based on a finding that the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to collect justifying documentation unless the award of compensation was the direct result of fraud by the applicant; or (B) to prospectively revoke or reduce a veteran’s disability compensation payments for post traumatic stress disorder, based on a finding that the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to collect justifying documentation, effective before the date on which the veteran’s time to exhaust all available administrative and judicial appeals has expired or such administrative and judicial appeals are finally decided; or(2) for the implementation of Recommendation 3 of VA Inspector General Report No. 05–00765–137 or any related review and investigation of post traumatic stress, individual unemployability, and schedular 100 percent ratings cases, until the Department of Veterans Affairs reports to the Committees 119 STAT. 2392 on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress on its plans for implementing this recommendation, and outlines the staffing and funding requirements.
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