Defrauding Veterans Would Be a Federal Crime Under Bill Pushed by Senators – By Rebecca Kheel (Military.com) / Feb 14, 2023
Defrauding veterans of their benefits would be its own federal crime under a bipartisan bill recently reintroduced in the Senate.
Under the bill from Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., fraud schemes that target veterans benefits would be punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine or both.
“Anytime the federal government provides essential benefits to our constituents, there’s going to be predators out there to take it away,” Cortez Masto said in a phone interview with Military.com on Tuesday. “So we have to make sure that we are imposing the appropriate enforcement to protect those individuals so that their benefits are not taken.”
