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• 38 CFR Part 3 (Click to Open)

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  § 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
  § 3.12a Minimum active-duty service requirement
  § 3.13 Discharge to change status
  § 3.14 Validity of enlistments
  § 3.15 Computation of service
  § 3.16 Service pension
  § 3.17 Disability and death pension; Mexican border period and later war periods
  §§ 3.18-3.19 [Reserved]
  § 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
  § 3.317 Compensation for certain disabilities occurring in Persian Gulf veterans [HISTORICAL 9-14-21]
  § 3.318 Presumptive service connection for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  § 3.319 [Reserved]
  § 3.320 Claims based on exposure to fine particulate matter
  § 3.320 Claims based on exposure to fine particulate matter [HISTORICAL 8-5-21]
  § 3.320a Presumptive service connection for bladder, ureter, and related genitourinary cancers
  § 3.320b Presumptive service connection for leukemias, multiple myelomas, myelodysplastic syndromes, and myelofibrosis
  § 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 Independent medical opinions
  § 3.329 [Reserved]
  § 3.330 Resumption of rating when veteran subsequently reports for Department of Veterans Affairs examination
  § 3.331 [Reserved]
  § 3.332 [Reserved]
  § 3.333 [Reserved]
  § 3.334 [Reserved]
  § 3.335 [Reserved]
  § 3.336 [Reserved]
  § 3.337 [Reserved]
  § 3.338 [Reserved]
  § 3.339 [Reserved]
  § 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
  § 3.376 [Reserved]
  § 3.377 [Reserved]
  § 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
  § 3.451 Special apportionments
  § 3.452 Situations when benefits may be apportioned
  § 3.453 Veterans compensation or service pension or retirement pay
  § 3.454 Veterans disability pension
  § 3.458 Veteran’s benefits not apportionable
  § 3.459 Death compensation
  § 3.460 Death pension
  § 3.461 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
  § 3.553 [Reserved]
  § 3.554 [Reserved]
  § 3.555 [Reserved]
  § 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
  § 3.662 [Reserved]
  § 3.663 [Reserved]
  § 3.664 [Reserved]
  § 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
  § 3.705 [Reserved]
  § 3.706 [Reserved]
  § 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)
  § 3.809a Special home adaptation grants under 38 U.S.C. 2101(b)
  § 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
  § 3.1700 Types of VA burial benefits
  § 3.1701 Deceased veterans for whom VA may provide burial benefits
  § 3.1702 Persons who may receive burial benefits; priority of payments
  § 3.1703 Claims for burial benefits
  § 3.1704 Burial allowance based on service-connected death
  § 3.1705 Burial allowance based on non-service-connected death
  § 3.1706 Burial allowance for a veteran who died while hospitalized by VA
  § 3.1707 Plot or interment allowances for burial in a State veterans cemetery or other cemetery
  § 3.1708 Burial of a veteran whose remains are unclaimed
  § 3.1709 Transportation expenses for burial
  § 3.1710 Escheat (payment of burial benefits to an estate with no heirs)
  § 3.1711 Effect of contributions by government, public, or private organizations
  § 3.1712 Effect of forfeiture on payment of burial benefits
  § 3.1713 Eligibility based on status before 1958
  § 3.2100 Scope of Applicability
  § 3.2130 Will VA accept a signature by mark or thumbprint?
  § 3.2400 Applicability of modernized review system
  § 3.2500 Review of decisions
  § 3.2501 Supplemental claims
  § 3.2502 Return by higher-level adjudicator or remand by the Board of Veterans’ Appeals
  § 3.2600 Legacy review of benefit claims decisions
  § 3.2601 Higher-level review

• 38 CFR Part 4 (Click to Open)

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  § 4.1 Essentials of evaluative rating
  § 4.2 Interpretation of examination reports
  § 4.3 Resolution of reasonable doubt
  § 4.6 Evaluation of evidence
  § 4.7 Higher of two evaluations
  § 4.9 Congenital or developmental defects
  § 4.10 Functional impairment
  § 4.13 Effect of change of diagnosis
  § 4.14 Avoidance of pyramiding
  § 4.15 Total disability ratings
  § 4.16 Total disability ratings for compensation based on unemployability of the individual
  § 4.17 Total disability ratings for pension based on unemployability and age of the individual
  § 4.17a Misconduct etiology
  § 4.18 Unemployability
  § 4.19 Age in service-connected claims
  § 4.20 Analogous ratings
  § 4.21 Application of rating schedule
  § 4.22 Rating of disabilities aggravated by active service
  § 4.23 Attitude of rating officers
  § 4.24 Correspondence
  § 4.25 Combined ratings table
  § 4.26 Bilateral factor
  § 4.27 Use of diagnostic code numbers
  § 4.28 Prestabilization rating from date of discharge from service
  § 4.29 Ratings for service-connected disabilities requiring hospital treatment or observation
  § 4.30 Convalescent ratings
  § 4.31 Zero percent evaluations
  § 4.15 Total disability ratings
  § 4.16 Total disability ratings for compensation based on unemployability of the individual
  § 4.17 Total disability ratings for pension based on unemployability and age of the individual
  § 4.17a Misconduct etiology
  § 4.18 Unemployability
  § 4.19 Age in service-connected claims
  § 4.20 Analogous ratings
  § 4.21 Application of rating schedule
  § 4.22 Rating of disabilities aggravated by active service
  § 4.23 Attitude of rating officers
  § 4.24 Correspondence
  § 4.25 Combined ratings table
  § 4.26 Bilateral factor
  § 4.27 Use of diagnostic code numbers
  § 4.28 Prestabilization rating from date of discharge from service
  § 4.29 Ratings for service-connected disabilities requiring hospital treatment or observation
  § 4.30 Convalescent ratings
  § 4.31 Zero percent evaluations
  § 4.40 Functional loss
  § 4.41 History of injury
  § 4.42 Complete medical examination of injury cases
  § 4.43 Osteomyelitis
  § 4.44 The bones
  § 4.45 The joints
  § 4.46 Accurate measurement
  § 4.47 Reserved
  § 4.54 Reserved
  § 4.55 Principles of combined ratings for muscle injuries
  § 4.56 Evaluation of muscle disabilities
  § 4.57 Static foot deformities
  § 4.58 Arthritis due to strain
  § 4.59 Painful motion
  § 4.60 Reserved
  § 4.61 Examination
  § 4.62 Circulatory disturbances
  § 4.63 Loss of use of hand or foot
  § 4.64 Loss of use of both buttocks
  § 4.65 Reserved
  § 4.66 Sacroiliac joint
  § 4.67 Pelvic bones
  § 4.68 Amputation rule
  § 4.69 Dominant hand
  § 4.70 Inadequate examinations
  § 4.71 Measurement of ankylosis and joint motion
  § 4.71a Schedule of ratings—musculoskeletal system
  § 4.72 Reserved
  § 4.73 Schedule of ratings—muscle injuries
  § 4.75 General considerations for evaluating visual impairment
  § 4.76 Visual acuity
  § 4.76a Computation of average concentric contraction of visual fields
  § 4.77 Visual fields
  § 4.78 Muscle function
  § 4.79 Schedule of ratings—eye
  § 4.80-4.84 Reserved
  § 4.85 Evaluation of hearing impairment
  § 4.86 Exceptional patterns of hearing impairment
  § 4.87 Schedule of ratings—ear
  § 4.87a Schedule of ratings—other sense organs
  § 4.88 [Reserved]
  § 4.88a Chronic fatigue syndrome
  § 4.88b Schedule of ratings—infectious diseases, immune disorders and nutritional deficiencies
  § 4.88c Ratings for inactive nonpulmonary tuberculosis initially entitled after August 19, 1968
  § 4.89 Ratings for inactive nonpulmonary tuberculosis in effect on August 19, 1968
  § 4.96 Special provisions regarding evaluation of respiratory conditions
  § 4.97 Schedule of ratings—respiratory system
  § 4.101–4.103 Reserved
  § 4.100 Application of the general rating formula for diseases of the heart
  § 4.104 Schedule of ratings—cardiovascular system
  § 4.110–4.111 Reserved
  § 4.112 Weight loss and nutrition
  § 4.113 Coexisting abdominal conditions
  § 4.114 Schedule of ratings—digestive system
  § 4.114 Schedule of ratings—digestive system [HISTORICAL 3/20/24]
  § 4.115 Nephritis
  § 4.115a Ratings of the genitourinary system—dysfunctions
  § 4.115b Ratings of the genitourinary system—diagnoses
  § 4.116 Schedule of ratings—gynecological conditions and disorders of the breast
  § 4.117 Schedule of ratings—hemic and lymphatic systems
  § 4.118 Schedule of ratings—skin
  § 4.119 Schedule of ratings—endocrine system
  § 4.120 Evaluations by comparison
  § 4.121 Identification of epilepsy
  § 4.122 Psychomotor epilepsy
  § 4.123 Neuritis, cranial or peripheral
  § 4.124 Neuralgia, cranial or peripheral
  § 4.124a Schedule of ratings—neurological conditions and convulsive disorders
  § 4.125 Diagnosis of mental disorders
  § 4.126 Evaluation of disability from mental disorders
  § 4.127 Intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder) and personality disorders
  § 4.128 Convalescence ratings following extended hospitalization
  § 4.129 Mental disorders due to traumatic stress
  § 4.130 Schedule of ratings—mental disorders
  § 4.149 Reserved
  § 4.150 Schedule of ratings—dental and oral conditions