The Home for the Brave Act excludes veterans' disability benefits from being counted as income when determining eligibility for federal housing assistance programs run by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This means veterans and military families receiving disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for service-related injuries, or survivors receiving dependency and indemnity compensation, will not have those payments counted against them when applying for or receiving housing aid. The change affects how much rent veterans pay in subsidized housing and whether they qualify for assistance programs in the first place. The bill has no specified funding mechanism or implementation timeline beyond the legislative process, but it applies to all HUD housing assistance programs going forward once enacted.
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