HR 6920 United States House · 118th Congress

Improving SCRA Benefit Utilization Act

This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) to improve access to existing financial protections for active-duty service members, reservists, and their dependents. It requires military financial literacy training to include SCRA consumer protections (like interest rate limits), mandates notifications about these benefits at key service milestones (e.g., when entering service or being mobilized), and clarifies that creditors must apply the SCRA interest rate cap to *all* pre-service debts, not just specified ones. Creditors must also provide multiple submission methods (online, mail, fax) for servicemembers to submit required documents. These changes aim to make SCRA benefits easier to understand and utilize without creating new financial obligations.
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Jan 2024
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Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Jan 30, 2024
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Jan 30, 2024
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
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Jan 9, 2024
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Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Jan 9, 2024
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