dockets: VA-2021-VBA-0025

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VA-2021-VBA-0025 VA Apportionments (2900-AP67) Rulemaking 2026-01-09T14:47:45Z 0b00006484dc5b17 2900-AP67 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its regulations to limit the circumstances in which benefits will be apportioned and to stop apportioning certain benefits. Currently, in limited situations, VA may pay a portion of a VA beneficiary’s monetary benefits directly to the beneficiary’s dependents. Most claims for apportionment involve complex issues of family law, issues that are best suited to the expertise and authority of state courts. VA claims adjudicators have limited ability to analyze these complex and fact-intensive claims. When VA awards apportionments, decisions rendered can disturb state court support awards, requiring a state court to expend additional resources to revisit a prior determination. Finally, due to their intricacy, a significant amount of information is needed to properly adjudicate apportionment claims. Because VA apportionment awards often conflict with the awards of better-situated state family courts and because VA lacks the authority and expertise to make fully-informed, accurate, and economically appropriate awards, VA is proposing to discontinue making apportionment awards in most circumstances and to stop apportioning certain benefits.               {"displayProperties": [], "keywords": null, "modifyDate": "2026-01-09T14:47:45Z", "dkAbstract": "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its regulations to limit the circumstances in which benefits will be apportioned and to stop apportioning certain benefits. Currently, in limited situations, VA may pay a portion of a VA beneficiary\u2019s monetary benefits directly to the beneficiary\u2019s dependents. Most claims for apportionment involve complex issues of family law, issues that are best suited to the expertise and authority of state courts. VA claims adjudicators have limited ability to analyze these complex and fact-intensive claims. When VA awards apportionments, decisions rendered can disturb state court support awards, requiring a state court to expend additional resources to revisit a prior determination. Finally, due to their intricacy, a significant amount of information is needed to properly adjudicate apportionment claims. Because VA apportionment awards often conflict with the awards of better-situated state family courts and because VA lacks the \nauthority and expertise to make fully-informed, accurate, and economically appropriate awards, VA is proposing to discontinue making apportionment awards in most circumstances and to stop apportioning certain benefits.", "agencyId": "VA", "program": null, "shortTitle": null, "subType2": null, "title": "Apportionments (2900-AP67)", "generic": null, "field1": null, "docketType": "Rulemaking", "petitionNbr": null, "rin": "2900-AP67", "organization": null, "legacyId": null, "subType": null, "category": null, "field2": null, "effectiveDate": null, "objectId": "0b00006484dc5b17"} single_get

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