Delivering Digitally to Our Veterans Act of 2025
Delivering Digitally to Our Veterans Act of 2025 would modernize how the Department of Veterans Affairs communicates with veterans and other eligible individuals about educational assistance benefits. The bill expands outreach channels beyond traditional mail and phone calls to include tailored lines of communication such as mailings, text messaging, virtual chats, and other electronic messaging. It requires VA to offer an opt-in mechanism so eligible veterans can choose to send and receive correspondence about education benefits digitally, and it mandates that eligible students be informed of this opt-in opportunity. The bill also extends a specific pension-payment limit date to January 31, 2033. In short, the act aims to make VA education-benefit communications more digital, accessible by choice, and potentially more timely and efficient, while extending a pension-related deadline.
Key Points
- 1The bill is titled the Delivering Digitally to Our Veterans Act of 2025.
- 2It broadens outreach under the SOLID START program by replacing “calling” with “communicating with” and adding electronic forms of messaging (text, virtual chat, etc.) to the channels VA may use.
- 3It adds a new subsection (i) to 38 U.S.C. § 3680 requiring VA to provide a mechanism for eligible veterans to opt into using tailored lines of communication (including text, email, online chats, etc.) to handle correspondence about entitlement to and use of educational benefits; it also requires VA to notify eligible individuals enrolled in education programs about the opt-in option.
- 4The term “tailored lines of communication” is defined to include mailings, text messaging, virtual chats, and other electronic forms of messaging.
- 5It extends the date for certain pension payment limits from November 30, 2031 to January 31, 2033.