FRAUD Act of 2025

Key Points

• Congress directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to use an IT system to spot fraud, waste, and abuse in Veterans Health Administration payment claims, including community care.
• The system must watch claims continuously, compare current and past claim data, and flag patterns that look suspicious, including after a claim has already been paid.
• The VA system can use machine learning to reduce “false alarms” and update over time to catch new tricks, while keeping logs and reports on what it finds.
• VA must start using the new fraud-detection setup within 1 year after the bill becomes law and send yearly reports to Congress starting 2 years after enactment.
• The bill also extends how long certain limits on payment of veterans’ pensions stay in place, moving the end date to January 30, 2034.