To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide for enhanced protections against identity theft related to the public filing of separation forms of members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

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Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish guidelines for: (1) states and local governments for protecting against identity theft related to the public filing of a separation form of a member of the Armed Forces; and (2) veterans for demonstrating that their personal identification information was misused by an unauthorized person as a direct result of such filing. Requires the Secretary to provide credit monitoring services and fraud remediation for one year to an adversely affected veteran, including: (1) providing one copy of the veteran's credit report every three months; (2) fraud resolution services; and (3) identity theft insurance of up to $30,000 in aggregate liability for the insured.

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  Introduced in House · EN · 29 September 2006

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