Title 38 of the United States Code
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- § 101. Definitions
- § 102. Dependent parents
- § 103. Special provisions relating to marriages
- § 104. Approval of educational institutions
- § 105. Line of duty and misconduct
- § 106. Certain service deemed to be active service
- § 107. Certain service deemed not to be active service
- § 108. Seven-year absence presumption of death
- § 109. Benefits for discharged members of allied forces
- § 110. Preservation of disability ratings
- § 1101. Definitions
- § 1102. Special provisions relating to surviving spouses
- § 1103. Special provisions relating to claims based upon effects of tobacco products
- § 1104. Cost-of-living adjustments
- § 111. Payments or allowances for beneficiary travel
- § 1110. Basic entitlement
- § 1111. Presumption of sound condition
- § 1112. Presumptions relating to certain diseases and disabilities
- § 1113. Presumptions rebuttable
- § 1114. Rates of wartime disability compensation
- § 1115. Additional compensation for dependents
- § 1116. Presumptions of service connection for diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents; presumption of exposure for veterans who served in certain locations
- § 1116A. Presumptions of service connection for veterans who served offshore of the Republic of Vietnam
- § 1116B. Presumption of herbicide exposure for certain veterans who served in Korea
- § 1117. Compensation for disabilities occurring in Persian Gulf War veterans
- § 1118. Presumptions of service connection for illnesses associated with service in the Persian Gulf during the Persian Gulf War
- § 1119. Presumptions of toxic exposure
- § 111A. Transportation of individuals to and from Department facilities
- § 112. Presidential memorial certificate program
- § 1120. Presumption of service connection for certain diseases associated with exposure to burn pits and other toxins
- § 1121. Basic entitlement
- § 1122. Rates of wartime death compensation
- § 113. Treatment of certain programs under sequestration procedures
- § 1131. Basic entitlement
- § 1132. Presumption of sound condition
- § 1133. Presumptions relating to certain diseases
- § 1134. Rates of peacetime disability compensation
- § 1135. Additional compensation for dependents
- § 1136. Vacant
- § 1137. Wartime presumptions for certain veterans
- § 114. Multiyear procurement
- § 1141. Basic entitlement
- § 1142. Rates of peacetime death compensation
- § 1143. Vacant
- § 115. Acquisition of real property
- § 1151. Benefits for persons disabled by treatment or vocational rehabilitation
- § 1152. Persons heretofore having a compensable status
- § 1153. Aggravation
- § 1154. Consideration to be accorded time, place, and circumstances of service
- § 1155. Authority for schedule for rating disabilities
- § 1156. Temporary disability ratings
- § 1157. Combination of certain ratings
- § 1158. Disappearance
- § 1159. Protection of service connection
- § 116. Reports to Congress: cost information
- § 1160. Special consideration for certain cases of loss of paired organs or extremities
- § 1161. Payment of disability compensation in disability severance cases
- § 1162. Clothing allowance
- § 1163. Trial work periods and vocational rehabilitation for certain veterans with total disability ratings
- § 1164. Presumptions of service-connection for Coronavirus Disease 2019
- § 1165. Choice of sex of medical examiner for certain disabilities
- § 1166. Claims involving military sexual trauma
- § 1167. 1 Mental health consultations
- § 1168. Medical nexus examinations for toxic exposure risk activities
- § 117. Advance appropriations for certain accounts
- § 1171. Procedures to determine presumptions of service connection based on toxic exposure; definitions
- § 1172. Annual notice and opportunity for public comment
- § 1173. Formal evaluation of recommendations
- § 1174. Regulations regarding presumptions of service connection based on toxic exposure
- § 1175. Authority to modify process; congressional oversight
- § 1176. Agreement with National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concerning toxic exposures
- § 118. Submission of reports to Congress in electronic form
- § 119. Contracting for statistical analyses and data evaluation
- § 1301. Definitions
- § 1302. Determination of pay grade
- § 1303. Cost-of-living adjustments
- § 1304. Special provisions relating to surviving spouses
- § 1305. Reevaluation of dependency and indemnity compensation determinations pursuant to changes in presumptions of service connection
- § 1310. Deaths entitling survivors to dependency and indemnity compensation
- § 1311. Dependency and indemnity compensation to a surviving spouse
- § 1312. Benefits in certain cases of in-service or service-connected deaths
- § 1313. Dependency and indemnity compensation to children
- § 1314. Supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation to children
- § 1315. Dependency and indemnity compensation to parents
- § 1316. Dependency and indemnity compensation in cases of prior deaths
- § 1317. Restriction on payments under this chapter
- § 1318. Benefits for survivors of certain veterans rated totally disabled at time of death
- § 1321. Certifications with respect to pay grade
- § 1322. Certifications with respect to social security entitlement
- § 1323. Certifications with respect to circumstances of death
- § 1501. Definitions
- § 1502. Determinations with respect to disability
- § 1503. Determinations with respect to annual income
- § 1504. Persons heretofore having a pensionable status
- § 1505. Payment of pension during confinement in penal institutions
- § 1506. Resource reports and overpayment adjustments
- § 1507. Disappearance
- § 1508. Frequency of payment of pension benefits
- § 1510. Vacant
- § 1511. Indian War veterans
- § 1512. Spanish-American War veterans
- § 1513. Veterans 65 years of age and older
- § 1521. Veterans of a period of war
- § 1522. Net worth limitation
- § 1523. Combination of ratings
- § 1524. Vocational training for certain pension recipients
- § 1525. Protection of health-care eligibility
- § 1531. Vacant
- § 1532. Surviving spouses of Civil War veterans
- § 1533. Children of Civil War veterans
- § 1534. Surviving spouses of Indian War veterans
- § 1535. Children of Indian War veterans
- § 1536. Surviving spouses of Spanish-American War veterans
- § 1537. Children of Spanish-American War veterans
- § 1541. Surviving spouses of veterans of a period of war
- § 1542. Children of veterans of a period of war
- § 1543. Net worth limitation
- § 1544. Vacant
- § 1560. , 1561. Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. A, title V, §563(c)(1), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 768
- § 1562. Special provisions relating to pension
- § 1701. Definitions
- § 1702. Presumptions: psychosis after service in World War II and following periods of war; mental illness after service in the Persian Gulf War
- § 1703. Veterans Community Care Program
- § 1703A. Agreements with eligible entities or providers; certification processes
- § 1703B. Access standards
- § 1703C. Standards for quality
- § 1703D. Prompt payment standard
- § 1703E. Center for Innovation for Care and Payment
- § 1703F. Credentialing verification requirements for providers of non-Department health care services
- § 1704. Preventive health services: annual report
- § 1704A. Independent assessments of health care delivery systems and management processes
- § 1705. Management of health care: patient enrollment system
- § 1705A. Management of health care: information regarding health-plan contracts
- § 1706. Management of health care: other requirements
- § 1706A. Remediation of medical service lines
- § 1707. Limitations
- § 1708. Temporary lodging
- § 1709. Comprehensive policy on reporting and tracking sexual assault incidents and other safety incidents
- § 1709A. Teleconsultation
- § 1709B. Evaluations of mental health care and suicide prevention programs
- § 1709C. Assistance for child care for certain veterans receiving health care
- § 1710. Eligibility for hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care
- § 1710A. Required nursing home care
- § 1710B. Extended care services
- § 1710C. Traumatic brain injury: plans for rehabilitation and reintegration into the community
- § 1710D. Traumatic brain injury: comprehensive program for long-term rehabilitation
- § 1710E. Traumatic brain injury: use of non-Department facilities for rehabilitation
- § 1711. Care during examinations and in emergencies
- § 1712. Dental care; drugs and medicines for certain disabled veterans; vaccines
- § 1712A. Eligibility for readjustment counseling and related mental health services
- § 1712B. Counseling for former prisoners of war
- § 1712C. Dental insurance plan for veterans and survivors and dependents of veterans
- § 1713. Renumbered §1781
- § 1714. Fitting and training in use of prosthetic appliances; guide dogs; service dogs
- § 1715. Tobacco for hospitalized veterans
- § 1716. Hospital care by other agencies of the United States
- § 1717. Home health services; invalid lifts and other devices
- § 1718. Therapeutic and rehabilitative activities
- § 1719. Repair or replacement of certain prosthetic and other appliances
- § 1720. Transfers for nursing home care; adult day health care
- § 1720A. Treatment and rehabilitative services for persons with drug or alcohol dependency
- § 1720B. Respite care
- § 1720C. Noninstitutional alternatives to nursing home care
- § 1720D. Counseling and treatment for sexual trauma
- § 1720E. Nasopharyngeal radium irradiation
- § 1720F. Comprehensive program for suicide prevention among veterans and members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces
- § 1720G. Assistance and support services for caregivers
- § 1720H. Mental health treatment for veterans and members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces who served in classified missions
- § 1720I. Mental and behavioral health care for certain former members of the Armed Forces
- § 1720J. Emergent suicide care
- § 1721. Power to make rules and regulations
- § 1722. Determination of inability to defray necessary expenses; income thresholds
- § 1722A. Copayment for medications
- § 1722B. Copayments: waiver of collection of copayments for telehealth and telemedicine visits of veterans
- § 1722C. Copayments: prohibition on collection of copayments for first three mental health care outpatient visits of veterans
- § 1723. Furnishing of clothing
- § 1724. Hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care abroad
- § 1725. Reimbursement for emergency treatment
- § 1725A. Access to walk-in care
- § 1726. Reimbursement for loss of personal effects by natural disaster
- § 1727. Persons eligible under prior law
- § 1728. Reimbursement of certain medical expenses
- § 1729. Recovery by the United States of the cost of certain care and services
- § 1729A. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund
- § 1729B. Consolidated patient accounting centers
- § 1730. Community residential care
- § 1730A. Prohibition on collection of copayments from certain veterans
- § 1730B. Access to State prescription drug monitoring programs
- § 1730C. Licensure of health care professionals providing treatment via telemedicine
- § 1731. Assistance to the Republic of the Philippines
- § 1732. Contracts and grants to provide for the care and treatment of United States veterans by the Veterans Memorial Medical Center
- § 1733. Supervision of program by the President
- § 1734. Hospital and nursing home care and medical services in the United States
- § 1735. Definitions
- § 1741. Criteria for payment
- § 1742. Inspections of such homes; restrictions on beneficiaries
- § 1743. Applications
- § 1744. Hiring and retention of nurses: payments to assist States
- § 1745. Nursing home care, adult day health care, and medications for veterans with service-connected disabilities
- § 1751. Screening, counseling, and medical treatment
- § 1752. Research
- § 1753. Voluntary participation; confidentiality
- § 1754. Reports
- § 1761. to 1764. Repealed. Pub. L. 102–585, title V, §514(a), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 4958
- § 1771. to 1774. Renumbered §§2031 to 2034
- § 1781. Medical care for survivors and dependents of certain veterans
- § 1782. Counseling, training, and mental health services for immediate family members and caregivers
- § 1783. Bereavement counseling
- § 1784. Humanitarian care
- § 1784A. Examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions and women in labor
- § 1785. Care and services during certain disasters and emergencies
- § 1786. Care for newborn children of women veterans receiving maternity care
- § 1787. Health care of family members of veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
- § 1788. Transplant procedures with live donors and related services
- § 1789. Mental health services for members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces
- § 1801. Repealed. Pub. L. 106–419, title IV, §401(c)(1), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1860
- § 1802. Spina bifida conditions covered
- § 1803. Health care
- § 1804. Vocational training and rehabilitation
- § 1805. Monetary allowance
- § 1806. Repealed. Pub. L. 106–419, title IV, §401(c)(3), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1860
- § 1811. Definitions
- § 1812. Covered birth defects
- § 1813. Health care
- § 1814. Vocational training
- § 1815. Monetary allowance
- § 1816. Regulations
- § 1821. Benefits for children of certain Korea service veterans born with spina bifida
- § 1822. Benefits for children of certain Thailand service veterans born with spina bifida
- § 1831. Definitions
- § 1832. Applicability of certain administrative provisions
- § 1833. Treatment of receipt of monetary allowance and other benefits
- § 1834. Nonduplication of benefits
- § 1835. Advisory council
- § 1836. Care and coordination teams
- § 1837. Duration of health care and benefits provided
- § 1838. Biennial report
- § 1901. Definitions
- § 1902. Premium rates and policy values
- § 1903. Amount of insurance
- § 1904. Plans of insurance
- § 1905. Renewal
- § 1906. Policy provisions
- § 1907. Payment or use of dividends
- § 1908. Premium payments
- § 1909. Effective date of insurance
- § 1910. Incontestability
- § 1911. Forfeiture
- § 1912. Total disability waiver
- § 1913. Death before six months' total disability
- § 1914. Statutory total disabilities
- § 1915. Total disability income provision
- § 1916. Insurance which matured before August 1, 1946
- § 1917. Insurance maturing on or after August 1, 1946
- § 1918. Assignments
- § 1919. National Service Life Insurance appropriation
- § 1920. National Service Life Insurance Fund
- § 1921. Extra hazard costs
- § 1922. Legacy service disabled veterans' insurance
- § 1922A. Legacy supplemental service disabled veterans' insurance for totally disabled veterans
- § 1922B. Service-disabled veterans insurance
- § 1923. Veterans' Special Life Insurance
- § 1924. In-service waiver of premiums
- § 1925. Limited period for acquiring insurance
- § 1926. Authority for higher interest rates for amounts payable to beneficiaries
- § 1927. Authority for higher monthly installments payable to certain annuitants
- § 1928. Authority for payment of interest on settlements
- § 1929. Authority to adjust premium discount rates
- § 1940. Definition
- § 1941. Amount of insurance
- § 1942. Plans of insurance
- § 1943. Premiums
- § 1944. Policy provisions
- § 1945. Renewal
- § 1946. Dividends to pay premiums
- § 1947. Incontestability
- § 1948. Total disability provision
- § 1949. Beneficiaries
- § 1950. Payment to estates
- § 1951. Payment of insurance
- § 1952. Optional settlement
- § 1953. Assignments
- § 1954. Forfeiture
- § 1955. United States Government Life Insurance Fund
- § 1956. Military and naval insurance appropriation
- § 1957. Extra hazard costs
- § 1958. Statutory total permanent disability
- § 1959. Waiver of disability for reinstatement
- § 1960. Waiver of premium payments on due date
- § 1961. Authority for higher interest rates for amounts payable to beneficiaries
- § 1962. Authority for higher monthly installments payable to certain annuitants
- § 1963. Authority for payment of interest on settlements
- § 1965. Definitions
- § 1966. Eligible insurance companies
- § 1967. Persons insured; amount
- § 1968. Duration and termination of coverage; conversion
- § 1969. Deductions; payment; investment; expenses
- § 1970. Beneficiaries; payment of insurance
- § 1971. Basic tables of premiums; readjustment of rates
- § 1972. Benefit certificates