The record

LegislationLegislation· Nov 2025
S 2392 Signed into law

Sponsored by Jerry Moran (R)

Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025

Increases disability and survivor benefits for veterans by matching the cost-of-living raise for December 2025.

Tradeoff

Raises payments to disabled veterans and surviving families without a stated offset or funding source in the bill.

What's in it

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No net budgetary effect; the $5.1 billion annual spending increase is already assumed in the under current law.

Although the bill authorizes $5.1 billion in annual spending increases for veterans' benefits, the entire amount is already budgeted in the current-law , so enacting this bill produces no new deficit impact—it simply formalize a COLA that was already expected to occur.

S. 2392, Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025 · Sep 2025

The Senate passed this by on November 9, 2025. The House passed it by on November 17, 2025, and it was signed into law on November 25, 2025.

  1. Senate

    Introduced

    (Jul 23, 2025)

  2. Senate

    Committee on Veterans' Affairs(Jul 23, 2025)

  3. Senate

    The Committee on Veterans' Affairs voted to send it to the floor

    Reported(Jul 30, 2025)

  4. Senate

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Nov 9, 2025)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. House

    Received from the Senate

    Received(Nov 12, 2025)

  6. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Nov 17, 2025)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  7. House

    Sent to the President

    (Nov 25, 2025)

  8. White House · Signature

    Signed

    Donald Trump (R)

  9. Enacted

    Became law(Nov 25, 2025)