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Compensation and pensions

$8,999,596 $9,572,817

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$8,425, 760 $9,276,429 $9,843,853 $9,915,741 $10, 210, 700! $10, 194,000 3,755, 107 3,879,396 3.893,900 3,874,220 3,846,600 3,833,000

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Total benefit programs

2,554,107 12,986,861

13,378,760 13,572, 377

14,866,862 i 15, 365, 779 15,611,446 15,670,912 15,888,925 15,640,924

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ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSED LEGISLATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1986

The following items are included in the President's legislative program for the first session of the 99th Congress and have been included in his fiscal year 1986 budget.

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Allow for borrower/lender negotiated rates
on guaranteed and vendee loans (mortgages);
terminate the Administrator's authority
to set interest rates...

Repeal transfer authority from direct loan revolving fund to loan guaranty revolving fund.....

Total, proposed legislation...

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Note: The Administration will also propose legislation to establish a means test for certain categories of veterans without service-connected disabilities without regard to age.

COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS PROPOSED LEGISLATION
FISCAL YEAR 1986

(In millions of dollars)

Estimated

Budget authority

Compensation, pension and insurance:

Amend dependency and indemnity compensation
rates for the surviving spouse of the
Commandant of the Coast Guard....
Increase Servicemen's Group Life Insurance
maximum coverage from $35 to $50 thousand.....

Readjustment benefits:

Improve the new educational assistance program
for veterans and members of the Armed Forces...
Extend the Emergency Veterans' Job Training
Act of 1983...

Amend authority to make Veterans' Readjustment
Appointments..

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Medical care:

Improve the delivery of health care services by the Veterans' Administration....

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Housing:

Authorize certain disabled veterans to acquire suitable housing with specially adapted modifications..

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Memorial affairs:

Direct the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to establish a national cemetery in Merced County, California.....

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Provide for the orderly expansion of the National
Cemetery system....

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Total-legislation proposals....

*(1) Insignificant

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701 To provide a 4.1 percent increase
for service-connected disabled veterans
and their surviving spouses and
children, effective December 1, 1985.

President's request:

Budget authority.
Outlays...

Committee recommendation:

Budget authority...
Outlays....

342.8 783.4 1,223.5 285.7 721.5 1,171.1

342.8 783.4 1,223.5 285.7 721.5 1,171.1

The Committee accepts the 4.1 percent increase in compensation for service disabled veterans and the same increase in dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving widows and children of veterans who died from service-connected causes.

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