Deliver the Military Pay Raise &Protect Paycheck SecurityBLUF: The President’s FY2027 budget proposes a well deserved tiered military pay raise—7% for E-5 and below, 6% for E-6 to O-3, and 5% for O-4 and above. AFSA urges Congress to enact this raise through the normal...

Why This Is Needed:Current Benefit Rule Falls Short: Under DoD policy, if a service member retires or receives an honorable discharge before adding dependents, they forfeit the right to transfer GI Bill benefits. Many who start families later lose eligibility through no...

Legislation SummaryQualify approximately 50,000 military retirees with combat-related injuries to concurrently receive both military retired pay and Veterans Affairs (VA) compensation. Provide total offset relief to veterans who suffered combat injuries or illnesses...

FYSA: Select members of Congress place word limits on the web-forms their offices receive. If you receive a notification that a letter is too long to send to your elected official, please take no more than 5 minutes to edit the letter to meet the word limit. You can also...

What is the CHIP IN for Veterans Act?The Communities Helping Invest through Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans (CHIP IN) Act, introduced by Rep. Don Bacon and Senator Deb Fischer, makes permanent a pilot program that allows public-private partnerships to fund the...

H.R. 4509 (119th Congress) – “NOPAIN for Veterans Act” is a bipartisan bill to make sure VA covers certain FDA-authorized non-opioid pain drugs/biologics by putting them on the VA National Formulary (and VA’s drug standardization list).Where it stands (as of Jan 7,...