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38 U.S.C. § 1903 — Amount of insurance
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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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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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**(a)** The Secretary may, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the President or the President’s designee, provide to personnel of the Department who are United States citizens and are assigned by the Secretary to the Department offices in the Republic of the Philippines allowances and benefits similar to those provided by the following provisions of law:
(1) Section 905 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (relating to allowances to provide for the proper representation of the United States).
(2) Sections 901(1), (2), (3), (4), (7), (8), (9), (11), and (12) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (relating to travel expenses).
(3) Section 901(13) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (relating to transportation of automobiles).
(4) Section 903 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (relating to the return of personnel to the United States on leave of absence).
(5) Section 904(d) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (relating to payments by the United States of expenses for treating illness or injury of officers or employees and dependents requiring hospitalization).
(6) [Section 5724a(c) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5724a/c&num=0&edition=prelim) (relating to subsistence expenses for 60 days in connection with the return to the United States of the employee and such employee’s immediate family).
(7) [Section 5724a(d) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5724a/d&num=0&edition=prelim) (relating to the sale and purchase of the residence or settlement of an unexpired lease of the employee when transferred from one station to another station and both stations are in the United States, its territories or possessions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico).
**(b
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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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**(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
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**(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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**(a)** The Secretary may furnish and launder such wearing apparel as may be prescribed for employees in the performance of their official duties.
**(b)** The Secretary may transport children of Department employees located at isolated stations to and from school in available Government-owned automotive equipment.
**(c)** The Secretary may provide recreational facilities, supplies, and equipment for the use of patients in hospitals and employees in isolated installations.
**(d)** The Secretary may provide for the preparation, shipment, installation, and display of exhibits, photographic displays, moving pictures, and other visual educational information and descriptive material. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, the Secretary may purchase or rent equipment.
**(e)** The Secretary may reimburse employees for the cost of repairing or replacing their personal property damaged or destroyed by patients or domiciliary members while such employees are engaged in the performance of their official duties.
**(f)**
(1) The Secretary, upon determining that an emergency situation exists and that such action is necessary for the effective conduct of the affairs of the Department, may use Government-owned, or leased, vehicles to transport employees to and from their place of employment and the nearest adequate public transportation or, if such public transportation is either unavailable or not feasible to use, to and from their place of employment and their home.
(2) The Secretary shall establish reasonable rates to cover the cost of the service rendered under this subsection, and all proceeds collected therefrom shall be applied to the applicable appropriation.
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 1904
‘‘Veterans’ Special Life Insurance’’ for ‘‘Veterans’ spe-
cial term insurance’’ in item 723.
1971—Pub. L. 92–188, § 3, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 645, sub-
stituted ‘‘Payment or use of dividends’’ for ‘‘Dividends
to pay premiums’’ in item 707.
1970—Pub. L. 91–291, § 7, June 25, 1970, 84 Stat. 331, sub-
stituted ‘‘Duration and termination of coverage; con-
version’’ for ‘‘Termination of coverage; conversion’’ in
item 768.
1965—Pub. L. 89–214, § 2, Sept. 29, 1965, 79 Stat. 886, re-
designated ‘‘SUBCHAPTER III—GENERAL’’ as ‘‘SUB-
CHAPTER
IV—GENERAL’’
and
inserted
‘‘SUB-
CHAPTER III—SERVICEMEN’S GROUP LIFE INSUR-
ANCE’’ comprising items 765 to 776.
1964—Pub. L. 88–664, § 12(c), Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1099,
added item 725.
SUBCHAPTER I—NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE
INSURANCE
§ 1901. Definitions
For the purposes of this subchapter—
(1) The term ‘‘insurance’’ means National
Service Life Insurance.
(2) The terms ‘‘widow’’ or ‘‘widower’’ mean a
person who was the lawful spouse of the insured
at the maturity of the insurance.
(3) The term ‘‘child’’ means a legitimate child,
an adopted child, and, if designated as bene-
ficiary by the insured, a stepchild or an illegit-
imate child.
(4) The terms ‘‘parent’’, ‘‘father’’, and ‘‘moth-
er’’ mean a father, mother, father through adop-
tion, mother through adoption, persons who
have stood in loco parentis to a member of the
military or naval forces at any time before
entry into active service for a period of not less
than one year, and a stepparent, if designated as
beneficiary by the insured.
(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1148, § 701;
renumbered § 1901, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6,
1991, 105 Stat. 406.)
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PRIOR PROVISIONS
Prior section 1901 was
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