Federal
Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits
1,197 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 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 — Outreach pursuant to changes in presumptions of service connection
- § 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
- § 1703G — Quarterly report on referrals for non-Department health care
- § 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
- § 1720K — Grants or contracts to provide mental health support to family caregivers of veterans
- § 1720L — Home- and community-based services: programs
- § 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