Similar measures pending before the House and Senate would repay more than $78 million in taxes that were collected wrongly from veterans. The bills, H.R. 5015 and S. 2712, would direct the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) to identify the roughly 14,000 veterans who received severance packages from the Defense Department after they sustained combat-related injuries that effectively ended their military careers. The accounting service then would reimburse those veterans for the taxes they paid. If the measures become law, affected veterans would not have to worry about filing amended tax returns to recoup the money they are owed. Also, veterans who were taxed more than three years ago still would be reimbursed, even though the window for filing an amended return normally would be closed.