The Autonomy for Disabled Veterans Act modifies Veterans Affairs home improvement benefits for disabled veterans. The bill increases the dollar amount the VA can spend on home structural alterations and improvements, raising the benefit limit to $10,000 for veterans who apply on or after the bill's enactment (with a lower $6,800 limit for those who previously applied for non-service-connected disability benefits but later had their disabilities deemed service-connected). The legislation also caps the number of improvements or alterations any single veteran can receive at three, and requires the benefit amounts to automatically adjust each fiscal year based on construction cost inflation. However, the bill explicitly prevents veterans who have already exhausted their benefits under the current program from receiving additional funding under these new rules.
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