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Health Care for Dependents and Survivors of Veterans
Congressional Research Service · 2024-10-16 · Reports · 6,467 words · PDF available
The Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) was established by the Veterans Health Care Expansion Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-82). CHAMPVA is primarily a health in...
The College Cost Reduction Act (H.R. 6951)
Congressional Research Service · 2024-10-16 · Reports · 17,987 words · PDF available
During the 118th Congress, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce marked up and ordered reported the College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA; H.R. 6951). Most of the bill’s provisions would amend...
Social Security and Older Workers
Congressional Research Service · 2024-10-16 · Reports · 13,424 words · PDF available
Social Security is a social insurance program that provides monthly cash benefits to retired or disabled workers and their eligible family members and eligible survivors of deceased workers. This repo...
Emergency Relief Program for Disaster-Damaged Highways and Bridges
Congressional Research Service · 2024-10-16 · Reports · 9,304 words · PDF available
Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, which made landfall in Florida within two weeks of each other in late September and early October 2024, cost hundreds of lives and caused widespread destruction ...
Eligibility for Participation in Title IV Student Financial Aid Programs
Congressional Research Service · 2024-10-16 · Reports · 14,709 words · PDF available
Title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) authorizes programs that provide financial assistance to students to aid them in obtaining a postsecondary education at qualifying institutions of higher edu...
Federal Inspection of Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products
Congressional Research Service · 2024-10-16 · Resources · 1,421 words · PDF available
On July 19, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), and state public health regulatory...
Closing the Flood Insurance Gap
Congressional Research Service · 2024-10-16 · Posts · 1,037 words · PDF available
There is a large flood insurance gap in the United States, where many people exposed to flood risk are not covered by flood insurance. Early estimates suggest that very few people had flood insurance ...
Federal Deductibility of State and Local Taxes
Congressional Research Service · 2024-10-16 · Reports · 7,517 words · PDF available
Under current law, taxpayers who itemize can deduct state and local real estate taxes, personal property taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes (in lieu of income taxes) from federal income when calcula...
Legislative Branch Agency Appointments: History, Processes, and Recent Actions
Congressional Research Service · 2024-10-16 · Reports · 8,170 words · PDF available
The leaders of the legislative branch agencies and entities—the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Library of Congress (LOC), the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the Government Publishi...