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38 U.S.C. § 3903 — Limitations on assistance; special training courses

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38 U.S.C. § 3903 — Limitations on assistance; special training courses

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**(a)** (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), no eligible person shall be entitled to receive more than one automobile or other conveyance under the provisions of this chapter, and no payment shall be made under this chapter for the repair, maintenance, or replacement of an automobile or other conveyance. (2) The Secretary may provide or assist in providing an eligible person with a second automobile or other conveyance under this chapter if— (A) the Secretary receives satisfactory evidence that the automobile or other conveyance previously purchased with assistance under this chapter was destroyed— (i) as a result of a natural or other disaster, as determined by the Secretary; and (ii) through no fault of the eligible person; and (B) the eligible person does not otherwise receive from a property insurer compensation for the loss. (3) The Secretary may provide or assist in providing an eligible person with an additional automobile or other conveyance under this chapter— (A) if more than 30 years have elapsed since the eligible person most recently received an automobile or other conveyance under this chapter; or (B) beginning on the day that is 10 years after date 11 So in original. Probably should be preceded by “the”. of the enactment of the Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022, if more than 10 years have elapsed since the eligible person most recently received an automobile or other conveyance under this chapter. **(b)** (1) Except as provided in subsection (d) of [section 3902 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3902&num=0&edition=prelim), no eligible person shall be provided an automobile or other conveyance under this chapter until it is established to the satisfaction of the Secretary, in accordance with regulations the Secretary shall prescribe, that the eligible person will be able to operate the automobile or other conveyance in a manner consistent with such person’s own safety and the safety of others and will satisfy the applicable standards of licensure to operate the automobile or other conveyance established by the State of such person’s residency or other proper licensing authority. (2) The Secretary shall ensure that to the extent practicable an eligible person who is provided an automobile or other conveyance under this chapter is given the opportunity to make personal selections relating to such automobile or other conveyance. **(c)** (1) An eligible person shall not be entitled to adaptive equipment under this chapter for more than two automobiles or other conveyances at any one time or (except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection) during any four-year period. (2) In a case in which the four-year limitation in paragraph (1) of this subsection precludes an eligible person from being entitled to adaptive equipment under this chapter, if the Secretary determines that, due to circumstances beyond the control of such person, one of the automobiles or other conveyances for which adaptive equipment was provided to such person during the applicable four-year period is no longer available for the use of such person, the Secretary may provide adaptive equipment to such person for an additional automobile or other conveyance during such period. Provision of adaptive equipment under this paragraph is within the discretion of the Secretary. Any action to provide adaptive equipment under this paragraph shall be made pursuant to regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe. **(d)** Adaptive equipment shall not be provided under this chapter unless it conforms to minimum standards of safety and quality prescribed by the Secretary. **(e)** (1) The Secretary shall provide, directly or by contract, for the conduct of special driver training courses at every hospital and, where appropriate, at regional offices and other medical facilities, of the Department to instruct such eligible person to operate the type of automobile or other conveyance such person wishes to obtain with assistance under this chapter, and may make such courses available to any veteran, eligible for care under chapter 17 of this title or member of the Armed Forces, who is determined by the Secretary to need the special training provided in such courses even though such veteran or member is not eligible for the assistance provided under this chapter. (2) The Secretary is authorized to obtain insurance on automobiles and other conveyances used in conducting the special driver training courses provided under this subsection and to obtain, at Government expense, personal liability and property damage insurance for all persons taking such courses without regard to whether such persons are taking the course on an in-patient or out-patient basis. (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may obtain, by purchase, lease, gift, or otherwise, any automobile, motor vehicle, or other conveyance deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of this subsection, and may sell, assign, transfer, or convey any such automobile, vehicle, or conveyance to which the Department obtains title for such price and upon such terms as the Secretary deems appropriate; and any proceeds received from any such disposition shall be credited to the applicable Department appropriation.

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38 U.S.C. § 111 — Payments or allowances for beneficiary travel

**(a)** Under regulations prescribed by the President pursuant to the provisions of this section, the Secretary may pay the actual necessary expense of travel (including lodging and subsistence), or in lieu thereof an allowance based upon mileage (at a rate of 41.5 cents per mile), of any person to or from a Department facility or other place in connection with vocational rehabilitation, counseling required by the Secretary pursuant to chapter 34 or 35 of this title, or for the purpose of examination, treatment, or care. Actual necessary expense of travel includes the reasonable costs of airfare if travel by air is the only practical way to reach a Department facility. In addition to the mileage allowance authorized by this section, there may be allowed reimbursement for the actual cost of ferry fares, and bridge, road, and tunnel tolls. **(b)** (1) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section and notwithstanding subsection (g)(2) of this section or any other provision of law, if, with respect to any fiscal year, the Secretary exercises the authority under this section to make any payments, the Secretary shall make the payments provided for in this section to or for the following persons for travel during such fiscal year for examination, treatment, or care for which the person is eligible: (A) A veteran or other person whose travel is in connection with treatment or care for a service-connected disability. (B) A veteran with a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more. (C) A veteran receiving pension under [section 1521 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1521&num=0&edition=prelim). (D) A veteran (i) who is not traveling by air and whose annual income (as determined under [secti

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38 U.S.C. § 3902 — Assistance for providing automobile and adaptive equipment

**(a)** The Secretary, under regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe, shall provide or assist in providing an automobile or other conveyance to each eligible person by paying the total purchase price of the automobile or other conveyance (including all State, local, and other taxes) or $18,900 (as adjusted from time to time under subsection (e)),11 See Special Benefit Allowance Rates note below. whichever is the lesser, to the seller from whom the eligible person is purchasing under a sales agreement between the seller and the eligible person. **(b)** (1) The Secretary, under regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe, shall provide each eligible person the adaptive equipment deemed necessary to insure that the eligible person will be able to operate the automobile or other conveyance in a manner consistent with such person’s own safety and the safety of others and so as to satisfy the applicable standards of licensure established by the State of such person’s residency or other proper licensing authority. (2) In the case of any veteran (other that a person eligible for assistance under paragraph (1) of this subsection) who is entitled to compensation for ankylosis of one or both knees, or one or both hips, the Secretary, under the terms and conditions set forth in subsections (a), (c), and (d) of [section 3903 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3903&num=0&edition=prelim) and under regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe, shall provide such adaptive equipment to overcome the disability resulting from such ankylosis as (A) is necessary to meet the applicable standards of licensure established by the State of such veteran’s residency or other proper licensing authority for the operation of suc

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38 U.S.C. § 3901 — Definitions

For purposes of this chapter: (1) The term “eligible person” means the following: (A) Any veteran entitled to compensation under chapter 11 of this title for any of the following disabilities, if the disability is the result of an injury incurred or disease contracted in or aggravated by active military, naval, air, or space service: (i) The loss or permanent loss of use of one or both feet. (ii) The loss or permanent loss of use of one or both hands. (iii) The permanent impairment of vision of both eyes of the following status: central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual acuity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than twenty degrees in the better eye. (iv) A severe burn injury (as determined pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary). (B) Any member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who is suffering from any disability described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subparagraph (A) if such disability is the result of an injury incurred or disease contracted in or aggravated by active military, naval, air, or space service. (2) The term “adaptive equipment” includes, but is not limited to, power steering, power brakes, power window lifts, power seats, special equipment necessary to assist the eligible person into and out of the automobile or other conveyance, and nonarticulating trailers solely designed to transport powered wheelchairs, powered scooters, or other similar mobility devices. Such term also includes (A) air-conditioning equipment when such equipment is necessary to the health and safety of the vetera

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38 U.S.C. § 1114 — Rates of wartime disability compensation

For the purposes of [section 1110 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1110&num=0&edition=prelim)— **(a)** if and while the disability is rated 10 percent the monthly compensation shall be $123; **(b)** if and while the disability is rated 20 percent the monthly compensation shall be $243; **(c)** if and while the disability is rated 30 percent the monthly compensation shall be $376; **(d)** if and while the disability is rated 40 percent the monthly compensation shall be $541; **(e)** if and while the disability is rated 50 percent the monthly compensation shall be $770; **(f)** if and while the disability is rated 60 percent the monthly compensation shall be $974; **(g)** if and while the disability is rated 70 percent the monthly compensation shall be $1,228; **(h)** if and while the disability is rated 80 percent the monthly compensation shall be $1,427; **(i)** if and while the disability is rated 90 percent the monthly compensation shall be $1,604; **(j)** if and while the disability is rated as total the monthly compensation shall be $2,673; **(k)** if the veteran, as the result of service-connected disability, has suffered the anatomical loss or loss of use of one or more creative organs, or one foot, or one hand, or both buttocks, or blindness of one eye, having only light perception, has suffered complete organic aphonia with constant inability to communicate by speech, or deafness of both ears, having absence of air and bone conduction, or, in the case of a woman veteran, has suffered the anatomical loss of 25 percent or more of tissue from a single breast or both breasts in combination (including loss by mastectomy or partial mastectomy) or has received radiation treatment of breast tissue, the

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38 U.S.C. § 1903 — Amount of insurance

Insurance shall be issued in any multiple of $500 and the amount of insurance with respect to any one person shall be not less than $1,000 or more than $10,000. No person may carry a combined amount of National Service Life Insurance and United States Government life insurance in excess of $10,000 at any one time. The limitations of this section shall not apply to the additional paid up insurance the purchase of which is authorized under [section 1907 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1907&num=0&edition=prelim).

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38 U.S.C. § 2109 — Specially adapted housing destroyed or damaged by natural disasters

**(a) In General.—** Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 2102 and 2102A of this title, the Secretary may provide assistance to a veteran whose home was previously adapted with assistance of a grant under this chapter in the event the adapted home which was being used and occupied by the veteran was destroyed or substantially damaged in a natural or other disaster, as determined by the Secretary. **(b) Use of Funds.—** Subject to subsection (c), assistance provided under subsection (a) shall— (1) be available to acquire a suitable housing unit with special fixtures or moveable facilities made necessary by the veteran’s disability, and necessary land therefor; (2) be available to a veteran to the same extent as if the veteran had not previously received assistance under this chapter; and (3) not be deducted from the maximum uses or from the maximum amount of assistance available under this chapter. **(c) Limitations.—** The amount of the assistance provided under subsection (a) may not exceed the lesser of— (1) the reasonable cost, as determined by the Secretary, of repairing or replacing the damaged or destroyed home in excess of the available insurance coverage on such home; or (2) the maximum amount of assistance to which the veteran would have been entitled under sections 2101(a), 2101(b), and 2102A of this title had the veteran not obtained previous assistance under this chapter.

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38 U.S.C. § 1904 — Plans of insurance

**(a)** Insurance may be issued on the following plans: Five-year level premium term, ordinary life, twenty-payment life, thirty-payment life, twenty-year endowment, endowment at age sixty, and endowment at age sixty-five. Level premium term insurance may be converted as of the date when any premium becomes or has become due, or exchanged as of the date of the original policy, upon payment of the difference in reserve, at any time while such insurance is in force and within the term period to any of the foregoing permanent plans of insurance, except that conversion to an endowment plan may not be made while the insured is totally disabled. **(b)** Under such regulations as the Secretary may promulgate a policy of participating insurance may be converted to or exchanged for insurance issued under this subsection on a modified life plan. Insurance issued under this subsection shall be on the same terms and conditions as the insurance which it replaces, except (1) the premium rates for such insurance shall be based on the 1958 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Basic Table of Mortality and interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum; (2) all cash, loan, paid-up, and extended values shall be based on the 1958 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Basic Table of Mortality and interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum; and (3) at the end of the day preceding the sixty-fifth birthday of the insured the face value of the modified life insurance policy or the amount of extended term insurance thereunder shall be automatically reduced by one-half thereof, without any reduction in premium. **(c)** Under such regulations as the Secretary may promulgate, a policy of nonparticipating insurance may be converted to or exchanged for insurance issued under this subsection on a modified

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38 U.S.C. § 3903 — Limitations on assistance; special training

Page 948 TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS § 3903 1 So in original. Probably should be preceded by ‘‘the’’. retary designates the quality standards of such man- ufacturer as meeting or exceeding the standards de- veloped under this section. ‘‘(5) In accordance with subsection (c)(2), the cer- tification of a provider by a third party, nonprofit or- ganization if the Secretary designates the quality standards of such organization as meeting or exceed- ing the standards developed under this section. ‘‘(6) The education and training of personnel of the Department who administer the automobile adaptive equipment program. ‘‘(7) The compliance of the provider with the Ameri- cans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.) when furnishing automobile adaptive equipment at the facility of the provider. ‘‘(8) The allowance, where technically appropriate, for veterans to receive modifications at their resi- dence or location of choice, including standards that ensure such receipt and notification to veterans of the availability of such receipt. ‘‘(c) CERTIFICATION OF MANUFACTURERS AND THIRD PARTY, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.— ‘‘(1) CERTIFICATION OF MANUFACTURERS.—The Sec- retary shall approve a manufacturer as a certifying manufacturer for purposes of subsection (b)(4), if the manufacturer demonstrates that its certification standards meet or exceed the quality standards devel- oped under this section. ‘‘(2) CERTIFICATION OF THIRD PARTY, NONPROFIT OR- GANIZATIONS.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may approve two or more private, nonprofit organizations as third party, nonprofit certifying organizations for purposes of subsection (b)(5). ‘‘(B) LIMITATION.—If at any time there is only one third party, nonprofit certifying organization ap- proved by the Sec

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