Code of Federal Regulations · Subpart
Subpart A — Pension, Compensation, And Dependency And Indemnity Compensation
38 C.F.R. pt. 3, subpt. A
- § 3.1 Definitions
- § 3.2 Periods Of War
- § 3.3 Pension
- § 3.4 Compensation
- § 3.5 Dependency And Indemnity Compensation
- § 3.6 Duty Periods
- § 3.7 Individuals And Groups Considered To Have Performed Active Military, Naval, Air, Or Space Service
- § 3.10 Dependency And Indemnity Compensation Rate For A Surviving Spouse
- § 3.11 Homicide
- § 3.12 Benefit Eligibility Based On Character Of Discharge
- § 3.13 Discharge To Change Status
- § 3.14 Validity Of Enlistments
- § 3.15 Computation Of Service
- § 3.16 Service Pension
- § 3.17 Disability And Survivors Pension; Mexican Border Period And Later War Periods
- § 3.20 Surviving Spouse's Benefit For Month Of Veteran's Death
- § 3.21 Monetary Rates
- § 3.22 Dic Benefits For Survivors Of Certain Veterans Rated Totally Disabled At Time Of Death
- § 3.23 Improved Pension Rates—Veterans And Surviving Spouses
- § 3.24 Improved Pension Rates—Surviving Children
- § 3.25 Parent's Dependency And Indemnity Compensation (dic)—Method Of Payment Computation
- § 3.26 Section 306 And Old-law Pension Annual Income Limitations
- § 3.27 Automatic Adjustment Of Benefit Rates
- § 3.28 Automatic Adjustment Of Section 306 And Old-law Pension Income Limitations
- § 3.29 Rounding
- § 3.30 Frequency Of Payment Of Improved Pension And Parents' Dependency And Indemnity Compensation (dic)
- § 3.31 Commencement Of The Period Of Payment
- § 3.32 Exchange Rates For Foreign Currencies
- § 3.33 Reevaluation Of Claims For Dependency And Indemnity Compensation Involving Presumptions Of Service Connection Following Enactment Of Public Law 117-168
- § 3.40 Philippine And Insular Forces
- § 3.41 Philippine Service
- § 3.42 Compensation At The Full-dollar Rate For Certain Filipino Veterans Residing In The United States
- § 3.43 Burial Benefits At The Full-dollar Rate For Certain Filipino Veterans Residing In The United States On The Date Of Death
- § 3.50 Spouse And Surviving Spouse
- § 3.52 Marriages Deemed Valid
- § 3.53 Continuous Cohabitation
- § 3.54 Marriage Dates
- § 3.55 Reinstatement Of Benefits Eligibility Based Upon Terminated Marital Relationships
- § 3.56 [reserved]
- § 3.57 Child
- § 3.58 Child Adopted Out Of Family
- § 3.59 Parent
- § 3.60 Definition Of “living With”
- § 3.100 Delegations Of Authority
- § 3.102 Reasonable Doubt
- § 3.103 Procedural Due Process And Other Rights
- § 3.104 Binding Nature Of Decisions
- § 3.105 Revision Of Decisions
- § 3.106 Renouncement
- § 3.107 Awards Where Not All Dependents Apply
- § 3.108 State Department As Agent Of Department Of Veterans Affairs
- § 3.109 Time Limit
- § 3.110 Computation Of Time Limit
- § 3.111 [reserved]
- § 3.112 Fractions Of One Cent
- § 3.114 Change Of Law Or Department Of Veterans Affairs Issue
- § 3.115 Access To Financial Records
- § 3.150 Forms To Be Furnished
- § 3.151 Claims For Disability Benefits
- § 3.152 Claims For Death Benefits
- § 3.153 Claims Filed With Social Security
- § 3.154 Injury Due To Hospital Treatment, Etc
- § 3.155 How To File A Claim
- § 3.156 New Evidence
- § 3.158 Abandoned Claims
- § 3.159 Department Of Veterans Affairs Assistance In Developing Claims
- § 3.160 Status Of Claims
- § 3.161 [reserved]
- § 3.200 Testimony Certified Or Under Oath
- § 3.201 Exchange Of Evidence; Social Security And Department Of Veterans Affairs
- § 3.202 Evidence From Foreign Countries
- § 3.203 Service Records As Evidence Of Service And Character Of Discharge
- § 3.204 Evidence Of Dependents And Age
- § 3.205 Marriage
- § 3.206 Divorce
- § 3.207 Void Or Annulled Marriage
- § 3.208 Claims Based On Attained Age
- § 3.209 Birth
- § 3.210 Child's Relationship
- § 3.211 Death
- § 3.212 Unexplained Absence For 7 Years
- § 3.213 Change Of Status Affecting Entitlement
- § 3.214 Court Decisions; Unremarried Surviving Spouses
- § 3.215 Termination Of Marital Relationship Or Conduct
- § 3.216 Mandatory Disclosure Of Social Security Numbers
- § 3.217 Submission Of Statements Or Information Affecting Entitlement To Benefits
- § 3.250 Dependency Of Parents; Compensation
- § 3.251 Income Of Parents; Dependency And Indemnity Compensation
- § 3.252 Annual Income; Pension; Mexican Border Period And Later War Periods
- § 3.256 Eligibility Reporting Requirements
- § 3.257 Children; No Surviving Spouse Entitled
- § 3.260 Computation Of Income
- § 3.261 Character Of Income; Exclusions And Estates
- § 3.262 Evaluation Of Income
- § 3.263 Corpus Of Estate; Net Worth
- § 3.270 Applicability Of Various Dependency, Income And Estate Regulations
- § 3.271 Computation Of Income
- § 3.272 Exclusions From Income
- § 3.273 Rate Computation
- § 3.274 Net Worth And Va Pension
- § 3.275 How Va Determines The Asset Amount For Pension Net Worth Determinations
- § 3.276 Asset Transfers And Penalty Periods
- § 3.277 Eligibility Reporting Requirements
- § 3.278 Deductible Medical Expenses
- § 3.279 Statutory Exclusions From Income Or Assets (net Worth Or Corpus Of The Estate)
- § 3.300 Claims Based On The Effects Of Tobacco Products
- § 3.301 Line Of Duty And Misconduct
- § 3.302 Service Connection For Mental Unsoundness In Suicide
- § 3.303 Principles Relating To Service Connection
- § 3.304 Direct Service Connection; Wartime And Peacetime
- § 3.305 Direct Service Connection; Peacetime Service Before January 1, 1947
- § 3.306 Aggravation Of Preservice Disability
- § 3.307 Presumptive Service Connection For Chronic, Tropical, Or Prisoner-of-war Related Disease, Disease Associated With Exposure To Certain Herbicide Agents, Or Disease Associated With Exposure To Contaminants In The Water Supply At Camp Lejeune; Wartime And Service On Or After January 1, 1947
- § 3.308 Presumptive Service Connection; Peacetime Service Before January 1, 1947
- § 3.309 Disease Subject To Presumptive Service Connection
- § 3.310 Disabilities That Are Proximately Due To, Or Aggravated By, Service-connected Disease Or Injury
- § 3.311 Claims Based On Exposure To Ionizing Radiation
- § 3.312 Cause Of Death
- § 3.313 Claims Based On Service In Vietnam
- § 3.314 Basic Pension Determinations
- § 3.315 Basic Eligibility Determinations; Dependents, Loans, Education
- § 3.316 Claims Based On Chronic Effects Of Exposure To Mustard Gas And Lewisite
- § 3.317 Compensation For Certain Disabilities Occurring In Persian Gulf Veterans
- § 3.318 Presumptive Service Connection For Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- § 3.319 [reserved]
- § 3.320 Claims Based On Exposure To Fine Particulate Matter
- § 3.321 General Rating Considerations
- § 3.322 Rating Of Disabilities Aggravated By Service
- § 3.323 Combined Ratings
- § 3.324 Multiple Noncompensable Service-connected Disabilities
- § 3.325 [reserved]
- § 3.326 Examinations
- § 3.327 Reexaminations
- § 3.328 Lndependent Medical Opinions
- § 3.329 [reserved]
- § 3.330 Resumption Of Rating When Veteran Subsequently Reports For Department Of Veterans Affairs Examination
- § 3.340 Total And Permanent Total Ratings And Unemployability
- § 3.341 Total Disability Ratings For Compensation Purposes
- § 3.342 Permanent And Total Disability Ratings For Pension Purposes
- § 3.343 Continuance Of Total Disability Ratings
- § 3.344 Stabilization Of Disability Evaluations
- § 3.350 Special Monthly Compensation Ratings
- § 3.351 Special Monthly Dependency And Indemnity Compensation, Death Compensation, Pension And Spouse's Compensation Ratings
- § 3.352 Criteria For Determining Need For Aid And Attendance And “permanently Bedridden.”
- § 3.353 Determinations Of Incompetency And Competency
- § 3.354 Determinations Of Insanity
- § 3.355 Testamentary Capacity For Insurance Purposes
- § 3.356 Conditions Which Determine Permanent Incapacity For Self-support
- § 3.357 Civil Service Preference Ratings
- § 3.358 Compensation For Disability Or Death From Hospitalization, Medical Or Surgical Treatment, Examinations Or Vocational Rehabilitation Training (§ 3.800)
- § 3.359 Determination Of Service Connection For Former Members Of The Armed Forces Of Czechoslovakia Or Poland
- § 3.360 Service-connected Health-care Eligibility Of Certain Persons Administratively Discharged Under Other Than Honorable Condition
- § 3.361 Benefits Under 38 U.s.c. 1151(a) For Additional Disability Or Death Due To Hospital Care, Medical Or Surgical Treatment, Examination, Training And Rehabilitation Services, Or Compensated Work Therapy Program
- § 3.362 Offsets Under 38 U.s.c. 1151(b) Of Benefits Awarded Under 38 U.s.c. 1151(a)
- § 3.363 Bar To Benefits Under 38 U.s.c. 1151
- § 3.370 Pulmonary Tuberculosis Shown By X-ray In Active Service
- § 3.371 Presumptive Service Connection For Tuberculous Disease; Wartime And Service On Or After January 1, 1947
- § 3.372 Initial Grant Following Inactivity Of Tuberculosis
- § 3.373 [reserved]
- § 3.374 Effect Of Diagnosis Of Active Tuberculosis
- § 3.375 Determination Of Inactivity (complete Arrest) In Tuberculosis
- § 3.378 Changes From Activity In Pulmonary Tuberculosis Pension Cases
- § 3.379 Anterior Poliomyelitis
- § 3.380 Diseases Of Allergic Etiology
- § 3.381 Service Connection Of Dental Conditions For Treatment Purposes
- § 3.382 [reserved]
- § 3.383 Special Consideration For Paired Organs And Extremities
- § 3.384 Psychosis
- § 3.385 Disability Due To Impaired Hearing
- § 3.400 General
- § 3.401 Veterans
- § 3.402 Surviving Spouse
- § 3.403 Children
- § 3.404 Parents
- § 3.405 Filipino Veterans And Their Survivors; Benefits At The Full-dollar Rate
- § 3.450 General Apportionment
- § 3.451 Apportionment Claims
- § 3.452 Veteran's Benefits Apportionable
- § 3.453 Benefits Not Apportionable
- § 3.454 Apportionment Of Pension
- § 3.455 Apportionment Of A Surviving Spouse's Dependency And Indemnity Compensation
- § 3.500 General
- § 3.501 Veterans
- § 3.502 Surviving Spouses
- § 3.503 Children
- § 3.504 Parents; Aid And Attendance
- § 3.505 Filipino Veterans And Their Survivors; Benefits At The Full-dollar Rate
- § 3.551 Reduction Because Of Hospitalization
- § 3.552 Adjustment Of Allowance For Aid And Attendance
- § 3.556 Adjustment On Discharge Or Release
- § 3.557 [reserved]
- § 3.558 Resumption And Payment Of Withheld Benefits; Incompetents With Estates That Equaled Or Exceeded Statutory Limit
- § 3.559 [reserved]
- § 3.650 Rate For Additional Dependent
- § 3.651 Change In Status Of Dependents
- § 3.652 Periodic Certification Of Continued Eligibility
- § 3.653 Foreign Residence
- § 3.654 Active Service Pay
- § 3.655 Failure To Report For Department Of Veterans Affairs Examination
- § 3.656 Disappearance Of Veteran
- § 3.657 Surviving Spouse Becomes Entitled, Or Entitlement Terminates
- § 3.658 Offsets; Dependency And Indemnity Compensation
- § 3.659 Two Parents In Same Parental Line
- § 3.660 Dependency, Income And Estate
- § 3.661 Eligibility Verification Reports
- § 3.665 Incarcerated Beneficiaries And Fugitive Felons—Compensation
- § 3.666 Incarcerated Beneficiaries And Fugitive Felons—Pension
- § 3.667 School Attendance
- § 3.668 [reserved]
- § 3.669 Forfeiture
- § 3.700 General
- § 3.701 Elections Of Pension Or Compensation
- § 3.702 Dependency And Indemnity Compensation
- § 3.703 Two Parents In Same Parental Line
- § 3.704 Elections Within Class Of Dependents
- § 3.707 Dependents' Educational Assistance
- § 3.708 Federal Employees' Compensation
- § 3.710 Civil Service Annuitants
- § 3.711 Improved Pension Elections
- § 3.712 Improved Pension Elections; Surviving Spouses Of Spanish-american War Veterans
- § 3.713 Effective Dates Of Improved Pension Elections
- § 3.714 Improved Pension Elections—Public Assistance Beneficiaries
- § 3.715 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Of 1990, As Amended
- § 3.750 Entitlement To Concurrent Receipt Of Military Retired Pay And Disability Compensation
- § 3.751 Statutory Awards; Retired Service Personnel
- § 3.752 [reserved]
- § 3.753 Public Health Service
- § 3.754 Emergency Officers' Retirement Pay
- § 3.800 Disability Or Death Due To Hospitalization, Etc
- § 3.801 Special Acts
- § 3.802 Medal Of Honor
- § 3.803 Naval Pension
- § 3.804 Special Allowance Under 38 U.s.c. 1312
- § 3.805 Loan Guaranty For Surviving Spouses; Certification
- § 3.806 Death Gratuity; Certification
- § 3.807 Dependents' Educational Assistance; Certification
- § 3.808 Automobiles Or Other Conveyances And Adaptive Equipment; Certification
- § 3.809 Specially Adapted Housing Under 38 U.s.c. 2101(a)(2)(a)(i)
- § 3.810 Clothing Allowance
- § 3.811 Minimum Income Annuity And Gratuitous Annuity
- § 3.812 Special Allowance Payable Under Section 156 Of Pub. L. 97-377
- § 3.813 Interim Benefits For Disability Or Death Due To Chloracne Or Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
- § 3.814 Monetary Allowance Under 38 U.s.c. Chapter 18 For An Individual Suffering From Spina Bifida Whose Biological Father Or Mother Is Or Was A Vietnam Veteran Or A Veteran With Covered Service In Korea
- § 3.815 Monetary Allowance Under 38 U.s.c. Chapter 18 For An Individual With Disability From Covered Birth Defects Whose Biological Mother Is Or Was A Vietnam Veteran; Identification Of Covered Birth Defects
- § 3.816 Awards Under The Nehmer Court Orders For Disability Or Death Caused By A Condition Presumptively Associated With Herbicide Exposure
- § 3.900 General
- § 3.901 Fraud
- § 3.902 Treasonable Acts
- § 3.903 Subversive Activities
- § 3.904 Effect Of Forfeiture After Veteran's Death
- § 3.905 Declaration Of Forfeiture Or Remission Of Forfeiture
- § 3.950 Helpless Children; Spanish-american And Prior Wars
- § 3.951 Preservation Of Disability Ratings
- § 3.952 Protected Ratings
- § 3.953 Pub. L. 85-56 And Pub. L. 85-857
- § 3.957 Service Connection
- § 3.958 Federal Employees' Compensation Cases
- § 3.959 Tuberculosis
- § 3.960 Section 306 And Old-law Pension Protection
- § 3.1000 Entitlement Under 38 U.s.c. 5121 To Benefits Due And Unpaid Upon Death Of A Beneficiary
- § 3.1001 Hospitalized Competent Veterans
- § 3.1002 Political Subdivisions Of United States
- § 3.1003 Returned And Canceled Checks
- § 3.1007 Hospitalized Incompetent Veterans
- § 3.1008 Accrued Benefits Payable To Foreign Beneficiaries
- § 3.1009 Personal Funds Of Patients
- § 3.1010 Substitution Under 38 U.s.c. 5121a Following Death Of A Claimant
- § 3.1004-3.1006 §§ 3.1004-3.1006 [reserved]
- § 3.12a a Minimum Active-duty Service Requirement
- § 3.18-3.19 §§ 3.18-3.19 [reserved]
- § 3.253-3.255 §§ 3.253-3.255 [reserved]
- § 3.258-3.259 §§ 3.258-3.259 [reserved]
- § 3.320a a Presumptive Service Connection For Bladder, Ureter, And Related Genitourinary Cancers
- § 3.320b b Presumptive Service Connection For Leukemias, Multiple Myelomas, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, And Myelofibrosis
- § 3.331-3.339 §§ 3.331-3.339 [reserved]
- § 3.376-3.377 §§ 3.376-3.377 [reserved]
- § 3.456-461 -461 [reserved]
- § 3.553-3.555 §§ 3.553-3.555 [reserved]
- § 3.662-3.664 §§ 3.662-3.664 [reserved]
- § 3.705-3.706 §§ 3.705-3.706 [reserved]
- § 3.809a a Special Home Adaptation Grants Under 38 U.s.c. 2101(b)
- § 3.955-3.956 §§ 3.955-3.956 [reserved]