To establish a task force to protect members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and military families, from financial fraud.
Summary
What This Bill Does
Establishes an interagency task force to identify, study, and recommend improvements against financial fraud targeting service members, veterans, and military families.
Who Benefits and How
Members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and military families could benefit from coordinated federal attention to scams, fraud risks, and consumer-protection gaps.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DoD, VA, FTC, CFPB, DOJ, FCC, Postal Inspection Service, and appointed nonprofit representatives would need to meet, consult, collect data, evaluate programs, and report annually.
Key Provisions
- Requires DoD, in consultation with VA, to establish the task force within 90 days.
- Includes federal agencies and three nonprofit representatives with expertise in financial fraud affecting military consumers.
- Requires consultation with victims, other agencies, law enforcement, financial services providers, technology companies, and social media platforms.
- Requires at least three meetings per year.
- Directs the task force to identify current and emerging fraud methods, evaluate existing programs and statutes, and develop recommendations.
- Requires an initial report within 180 days and annual reports thereafter.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Establishes an interagency task force to identify, study, and recommend improvements against financial fraud targeting service members, veterans, and military families.
Key Policy Areas
Defense, Consumer Protection, Veterans, Finance, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Establishes an interagency task force to identify, study, and recommend improvements against financial fraud targeting service members, veterans, and military families.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Service members, veterans, and military families targeted by financial fraud
- Federal and nonprofit consumer-protection efforts focused on military consumers
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal agencies and nonprofit representatives serving on or consulting with the task force
- Fraud perpetrators targeting military consumers
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Lynch (for himself, Ms. McBride, Mr. Gottheimer, and Ms. …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Service members, veterans, and military families targeted by financial fraud
Federal agencies and nonprofit representatives serving on the financial fraud task force
Financial fraud perpetrators targeting military consumers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "task_force"
- → Interagency Task Force on Financial Fraud
- "secretary_of_defense"
- → Secretary of Defense
- "secretary_of_veterans_affairs"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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