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38 U.S.C. § 1915 — Total disability income provision
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The Secretary shall, except as hereinafter provided, upon application by the insured and proof of good health satisfactory to the Secretary and payment of such extra premium as the Secretary shall prescribe, include in any National Service Life Insurance policy on the life of the insured (except a policy issued under section 620 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, or [section 1922 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1922&num=0&edition=prelim)) provisions whereby an insured who is shown to have become totally disabled for a period of six consecutive months or more commencing after the date of such application and before attaining the age of sixty-five and while the payment of any premium is not in default, shall be paid monthly disability benefits from the first day of the seventh consecutive month of and during the continuance of such total disability of $10 for each $1,000 of such insurance in effect when such benefits become payable. The total disability provision authorized under this section shall not be issued unless application therefor is made either prior to the insured’s fifty-fifth birthday, or before the insured’s sixtieth birthday and prior to January 1, 1966. The total disability provision authorized under this section shall not be added to a policy containing the total disability coverage heretofore issued under section 602(v) of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, or the provisions of this section as in effect before January 1, 1965, except upon surrender of such total disability coverage, proof of good health, if required, satisfactory to the Secretary, and payment of such extra premium as the Secretary shall determine is required in such cases. Participating policies con
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The Secretary shall, except as hereinafter provided, upon application by the insured and proof of good health satisfactory to the Secretary and payment of such extra premium as the Secretary shall prescribe, include in any National Service Life Insurance policy on the life of the insured (except a policy issued under section 620 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, or [section 1922 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1922&num=0&edition=prelim)) provisions whereby an insured who is shown to have become totally disabled for a period of six consecutive months or more commencing after the date of such application and before attaining the age of sixty-five and while the payment of any premium is not in default, shall be paid monthly disability benefits from the first day of the seventh consecutive month of and during the continuance of such total disability of $10 for each $1,000 of such insurance in effect when such benefits become payable. The total disability provision authorized under this section shall not be issued unless application therefor is made either prior to the insured’s fifty-fifth birthday, or before the insured’s sixtieth birthday and prior to January 1, 1966. The total disability provision authorized under this section shall not be added to a policy containing the total disability coverage heretofore issued under section 602(v) of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, or the provisions of this section as in effect before January 1, 1965, except upon surrender of such total disability coverage, proof of good health, if required, satisfactory to the Secretary, and payment of such extra premium as the Secretary shall determine is required in such cases. Participating policies containing additional provisions for the payment of disability benefits may be separately classified for the purpose of dividend distribution from otherwise similar policies not containing such benefits.
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**(a) Congressional Testimony.—** An employee of the Department is performing official duty during the period with respect to which the employee is testifying in an official capacity in front of either chamber of Congress, a committee of either chamber of Congress, or a joint or select committee of Congress.
**(b) Travel Expenses.—** The Secretary shall provide travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with applicable provisions under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, to any employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs performing official duty described under subsection (a).
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**(a)** Any person who is released from active military, naval, air, or space service, under other than dishonorable conditions on or after April 25, 1951, and is found by the Secretary to be suffering from a disability or disabilities for which compensation would be payable if 10 per centum or more in degree and except for which such person would be insurable according to the standards of good health established by the Secretary, shall, upon application in writing made within two years from the date service-connection of such disability is determined by the Secretary and payment of premiums as provided in this subchapter, be granted insurance by the United States against the death of such person occurring while such insurance is in force. If such a person is shown by evidence satisfactory to the Secretary to have been mentally incompetent during any part of the two-year period, application for insurance under this section may be filed within two years after a guardian is appointed or within two years after the removal of such disability as determined by the Secretary, whichever is the earlier date. If the guardian was appointed or the removal of the disability occurred before January 1, 1959, application for insurance under this section may be made within two years after that date. Insurance granted under this section shall be issued upon the same terms and conditions as are contained in the standard policies of National Service Life Insurance except (1) the premium rates for such insurance shall be based on the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality and interest at the rate of 2¼ per centum per annum; (2) all cash, loan, paid-up, and extended values shall be based upon the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality and interest at the rat
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**(a)** Until and unless the Secretary has received from the insured a request or directive in writing exercising any other dividend option allowable under the insured’s policy, any dividend accumulations and unpaid dividends shall be applied in payment of premiums becoming due on insurance subsequent to the date the dividend is payable after January 1, 1952.
**(b)** No claim by an insured for payment in cash of a special dividend declared prior to January 1, 1952, shall be processed by the Secretary unless such claim was received within six years after such dividend was declared. Whenever any claim for payment of a special dividend, the processing of which is barred by this subsection, is received by the Secretary, it shall be returned to the claimant, with a copy of this subsection, and such action shall be a complete response without further communication.
**(c)** The Secretary, upon application in writing made by the insured for insurance under this subsection, and without proof of good health, is authorized to apply any dividend due and payable on national service life insurance after the date of such application to purchase paid up insurance. Also, the Secretary, upon application in writing made by the insured during the one-year period beginning September 1, 1991, and without proof of good health, is authorized to apply any national service life insurance dividend credits and deposits of such insured existing at the date of the insured’s application to purchase paid up insurance. After September 1, 1992, the Secretary may, from time to time, provide for further one-year periods during which insureds may purchase additional paid up insurance from existing dividend credits and deposits. Any such period for the purchase of additional paid up insurance may be allow
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 1916
to be in force at the date of the death, and the
unpaid premiums shall become a lien against
the proceeds of the insurance. If the beneficiary
is insane or a minor, proof of such facts may be
filed within one year after removal of such legal
disability.
(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1150, § 713;
Pub. L. 99–576, title VII, § 701(26), Oct. 28, 1986, 100
Stat. 3292; renumbered § 1913 and amended Pub.
L. 102–83, §§ 4(a)(3), (4), (b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), (c)(1),
Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404–406.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1991—Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), renumbered section 713 of
this title as this section.
Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted ‘‘1912’’ for ‘‘712’’.
Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted ‘‘Sec-
retary’’ for ‘‘Administrator’’.
Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(a)(3), (4), substituted ‘‘Department’’
for ‘‘Veterans’ Administration’’.
1986—Pub. L. 99–576 substituted ‘‘the’’ for ‘‘his’’ in
three places.
§ 1914. Statutory total disabilities
Without prejudice to any other cause of dis-
ability, the permanent loss of the use of both
feet, of both hands, or of both eyes, or of one
foot and one hand, or of one foot and one eye, or
of one hand and one eye, or the total loss of
hearing of both ears, or the organic loss of
speech, shall be deemed total disability for in-
surance purposes.
(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1151, § 714;
renumbered § 1914, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6,
1991, 105 Stat. 406.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 714 of this
title as this section.
§ 1915. Total disability income provision
The Secretary shall, except as hereinafter pro-
vided, upon application by the insured and proof
of good health satisfactory to the Secretary a
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