VA raises home modification cap for disabled veterans, adds inflation protection
H.R. 2245 — Autonomy for Disabled Veterans Act · Filed by Don Bacon (R-NE) · 17 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 21, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill increases the federal cap on home modification assistance for disabled veterans. It raises the maximum payment for structural alterations from $6,800 to $10,000 and for improvements from $2,000 to $5,000, and adds automatic annual inflation adjustments tied to the Consumer Price Index. The benefit applies only to veterans who apply after the bill's enactment; those who already exhausted their eligibility receive no additional funds.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a straightforward increase in federal payment caps for disabled veterans' home modifications, with automatic inflation adjustment. It is a direct benefit expansion with no riders or hidden provisions.
What the text implies
- Veterans who exhausted eligibility before enactment are permanently barred from the higher benefit amounts, creating a two-tier system based on application timing rather than need or disability status.
- Inflation adjustment is tied to CPI-U (urban consumers), which may not reflect actual construction and accessibility modification cost inflation, potentially causing real purchasing power to drift over time.
- No appropriations language is present; the bill assumes existing VA budget authority covers the increased caps without requiring new funding authorization.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Disabled veterans receive higher federal assistance for home modifications that enable independent living, with automatic inflation protection ensuring the benefit does not erode over time. The restriction to new applicants is a cost to those who already exhausted prior eligibility, but the net effect for the veteran population is improved access to critical accessibility funding.
Who stands to gain
- disabled veterans (direct benefit recipients)
- home modification contractors and accessibility service providers (indirect, through increased veter
Named in the bill
Department of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 38 U.S.C. § 1717, Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers
Where it stands
17 cosponsors: 15 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
- Mar 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 21, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $310,451 in lobbying spend. A filing names 170 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Don Bacon, the sponsor, reported $513,000 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Disabled American Veterans — $310,451 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 21, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,574 characters) on Oct 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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