Federal
Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits
1,197 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 3699A — Provision of certain information to educational institutions
- § 3699B — Treatment of certain for-profit educational institutions
- § 3699C — High technology program
- § 3699D — Notice of changes to policies and guidance relating to educational assistance programs
- § 3701 — Definitions
- § 3702 — Basic entitlement
- § 3703 — Basic provisions relating to loan guaranty and insurance
- § 3704 — Restrictions on loans
- § 3705 — Warranties
- § 3706 — Escrow of deposits and downpayments
- § 3707 — Adjustable rate mortgages
- § 3707A — Hybrid adjustable rate mortgages
- § 3708 — Authority to buy down interest rates: pilot program
- § 3709 — Refinancing of housing loans
- § 3710 — Purchase or construction of homes
- § 3711 — Direct loans to veterans
- § 3712 — Loans to purchase manufactured homes and lots
- § 3713 — Release from liability under guaranty
- § 3714 — Assumptions; release from liability
- § 3715 to 3719 — Vacant]
- § 3720 — Powers of Secretary
- § 3721 — Incontestability
- § 3722 — Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund
- § 3723 to 3725 — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–368, title VI, § 602(a)(1) , Nov. 11, 1998 , 112 Stat. 3345 ]
- § 3726 — Withholding of payments, benefits, etc.
- § 3727 — Expenditures to correct or compensate for structural defects in mortgaged homes
- § 3728 — Exemption from State anti-usury provisions
- § 3729 — Loan fee
- § 3730 — Use of attorneys in court
- § 3731 — Appraisals
- § 3732 — Procedure on default
- § 3733 — Property management
- § 3734 — Annual submission of information on the Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund and housing programs
- § 3735 — Renumbered § 2041]
- § 3736 — Reporting requirements
- § 3737 — Partial Claim Program
- § 3741 — Definitions
- § 3742 — Small business loan program
- § 3743 — Liability on loans
- § 3744 — Approval of loans by the Secretary
- § 3745 — Interest on loans
- § 3746 — Maturity of loans
- § 3747 — Eligible financial institutions
- § 3748 — Preference for disabled veterans
- § 3749 — Revolving fund
- § 3750 — Incorporation of other provisions by the Secretary
- § 3751 — Termination of program
- § 3761 — Direct housing loans to Native American veterans; program authority
- § 3762 — Direct housing loans to Native American veterans; program administration
- § 3762A — Native community development financial institution relending program
- § 3763 — Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program Account
- § 3764 — Qualified non-Native American veterans
- § 3765 — Definitions
- § 3771 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–95, § 5(d)(3) , Dec. 21, 2001 , 115 Stat. 918 ]
- § 3772 to 3775 — Renumbered §§ 2051 to 2054]
- § 3901 — Definitions
- § 3902 — Assistance for providing automobile and adaptive equipment
- § 3903 — Limitations on assistance; special training courses
- § 3904 — Research and development
- § 4100 — Findings
- § 4101 — Definitions
- § 4102 — Purpose
- § 4102A — Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’ Employment and Training; program functions; Regional Administrators
- § 4103 — Directors and Assistant Directors for Veterans’ Employment and Training; additional Federal personnel
- § 4103A — Disabled veterans’ outreach program
- § 4104 — Local veterans’ employment representatives
- § 4104A — Collaborative veterans’ training, mentoring, and placement program
- § 4105 — Cooperation of Federal agencies
- § 4106 — Estimate of funds for administration; authorization of appropriations
- § 4107 — Administrative controls; annual report
- § 4108 — Cooperation and coordination
- § 4109 — National Veterans’ Employment and Training Services Institute
- § 4110 — Advisory Committee on Veterans Employment, Training, and Employer Outreach
- § 4110A — Special unemployment study
- § 4110B — Coordination and nonduplication
- § 4111 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–95, § 5(e)(3) , Dec. 21, 2001 , 115 Stat. 918 ]
- § 4112 — Performance incentive awards for quality employment, training, and placement services
- § 4113 — Transition Assistance Program personnel
- § 4114 — Credentialing and licensure of veterans: demonstration project
- § 4115 — Longitudinal study of job counseling, training, and placement service for veterans
- § 4211 — Definitions
- § 4212 — Veterans’ employment emphasis under Federal contracts
- § 4213 — Eligibility requirements for veterans under Federal employment and training programs
- § 4214 — Employment within the Federal Government
- § 4215 — Priority of service for veterans in Department of Labor job training programs
- § 4301 — Purposes; sense of Congress
- § 4302 — Relation to other law and plans or agreements
- § 4303 — Definitions
- § 4304 — Character of service
- § 4311 — Discrimination against persons who serve in the uniformed services and acts of reprisal prohibited
- § 4312 — Reemployment rights of persons who serve in the uniformed services
- § 4313 — Reemployment positions
- § 4314 — Reemployment by the Federal Government
- § 4315 — Reemployment by certain Federal agencies
- § 4316 — Rights, benefits, and obligations of persons absent from employment for service in a uniformed service
- § 4317 — Health plans
- § 4318 — Employee pension benefit plans
- § 4319 — Employment and reemployment rights in foreign countries
- § 4321 — Assistance in obtaining reemployment or other employment rights or benefits
- § 4322 — Enforcement of employment or reemployment rights
- § 4323 — Enforcement of rights with respect to a State or private employer
- § 4324 — Enforcement of rights with respect to Federal executive agencies
- § 4325 — Enforcement of rights with respect to certain Federal agencies
- § 4326 — Conduct of investigation; subpoenas
- § 4327 — Noncompliance of Federal officials with deadlines; inapplicability of statutes of limitations
- § 4331 — Regulations
- § 4332 — Reports
- § 4333 — Outreach
- § 4334 — Notice of rights and duties
- § 4335 — Training for Federal executive agency human resources personnel on employment and reemployment rights and limitations
- § 501 — Rules and regulations
- § 502 — Judicial review of rules and regulations
- § 503 — Administrative error; equitable relief
- § 505 — Opinions of Attorney General
- § 510 — Authority to reorganize offices
- § 5100 — Definitions
- § 5101 — Claims and forms
- § 5102 — Application forms furnished upon request; notice to claimants of incomplete applications
- § 5103 — Notice to claimants of required information and evidence
- § 5103A — Duty to assist claimants
- § 5104 — Decisions and notices of decisions
- § 5104A — Binding nature of favorable findings
- § 5104B — Higher-level review by the agency of original jurisdiction
- § 5104C — Options following decision by agency of original jurisdiction
- § 5105 — Joint applications for social security and dependency and indemnity compensation
- § 5106 — Furnishing of information by other agencies
- § 5107 — Claimant responsibility; benefit of the doubt
- § 5108 — Supplemental claims
- § 5109 — Independent medical opinions
- § 5109A — Revision of decisions on grounds of clear and unmistakable error
- § 5109B — Expedited treatment of returned and remanded claims
- § 511 — Decisions of the Secretary; finality
- § 5110 — Effective dates of awards
- § 5111 — Commencement of period of payment
- § 5112 — Effective dates of reductions and discontinuances
- § 5113 — Effective dates of educational benefits
- § 512 — Delegation of authority; assignment of functions and duties
- § 5120 — Payment of benefits; delivery
- § 5121 — Payment of certain accrued benefits upon death of a beneficiary
- § 5121A — Substitution in case of death of claimant
- § 5122 — Cancellation of checks mailed to deceased payees
- § 5123 — Rounding down of pension rates
- § 5124 — Acceptance of claimant’s statement as proof of relationship
- § 5125 — Acceptance of reports of private physician examinations
- § 5126 — Benefits not to be denied based on lack of mailing address
- § 513 — Contracts and personal services
- § 515 — Administrative settlement of tort claims
- § 516 — Equal employment responsibilities
- § 517 — Quarterly reports to Congress on conferences sponsored by the Department
- § 521 — Assistance to certain rehabilitation activities
- § 521A — Adaptive sports programs for disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces
- § 522 — Studies of rehabilitation of disabled persons
- § 523 — Coordination and promotion of other programs affecting veterans and their dependents
- § 525 — Publication of laws relating to veterans
- § 527 — Evaluation and data collection
- § 529 — Annual report to Congress
- § 530 — Annual report on program and expenditures for domestic response to weapons of mass destruction
- § 5301 — Nonassignability and exempt status of benefits
- § 5302 — Waiver of recovery of claims by the United States
- § 5302A — Collection of indebtedness: certain debts of members of the Armed Forces and veterans who die of injury incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in a combat zone
- § 5302B — Prohibition of debt arising from overpayment due to delay in processing
- § 5303 — Certain bars to benefits
- § 5303A — Minimum active-duty service requirement
- § 5303B — Character of service determinations
- § 5304 — Prohibition against duplication of benefits
- § 5305 — Waiver of retired pay
- § 5306 — Renouncement of right to benefits
- § 5307 — Apportionment of benefits
- § 5308 — Withholding benefits of persons in territory of the enemy
- § 5309 — Payment of certain withheld benefits
- § 531 — Requirements relating to naming of Department property
- § 5310 — Payment of benefits for month of death
- § 5311 — Prohibition of certain benefit payments
- § 5312 — Annual adjustment of certain benefit rates
- § 5313 — Limitation on payment of compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation to persons incarcerated for conviction of a felony
- § 5313A — Limitation on payment of clothing allowance to incarcerated veterans
- § 5313B — Prohibition on providing certain benefits with respect to persons who are fugitive felons
- § 5314 — Indebtedness offsets
- § 5314A — Dispute of indebtedness
- § 5315 — Interest and administrative cost charges on delinquent payments of certain amounts due the United States
- § 5316 — Authority to sue to collect certain debts
- § 5317 — Use of income information from other agencies: notice and verification
- § 5317A — Use of income information from other agencies: independent verification required before termination or reduction of certain benefits and services
- § 5318 — Review of Social Security Administration death information
- § 5319 — Limitations on access to financial records
- § 532 — Authority to advertise in national media; VetStar Award Program
- § 5320 — Threshold for reporting debts to consumer reporting agencies
- § 5321 — Benefits helpline
- § 533 — Anti-harassment and anti-sexual assault policy
- § 541 — Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War
- § 542 — Advisory Committee on Women Veterans
- § 543 — Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs
- § 544 — Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans
- § 545 — Advisory Committee on the Readjustment of Veterans
- § 546 — Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation
- § 547 — Advisory Committee on Tribal and Indian Affairs
- § 548 — Advisory Committee on United States Outlying Areas and Freely Associated States
- § 5501 — Commitment actions
- § 5501A — Beneficiaries’ rights in mental competence determinations
- § 5502 — Payments to and supervision of fiduciaries