§ 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