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38 U.S.C. § 5120 — Payment of benefits; delivery
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**(a)** Monetary benefits under laws administered by the Secretary shall be paid by checks drawn, pursuant to certification by the Secretary, in such form as to protect the United States against loss, and payable by the Treasurer of the United States. Such checks shall be payable without separate vouchers or receipts except in any case in which the Secretary may consider a voucher necessary for the protection of the Government. Such checks shall be transmitted by mail to the payee thereof at the payee’s last known address and, if the payee has moved and filed a regular change of address notice with the United States Postal Service, shall be forwarded to the payee. The envelope or cover of each such checks shall bear on the face thereof the following notice: “POSTMASTER: PLEASE FORWARD if addressee has moved and filed a regular change-of-address notice. If addressee is deceased, return the letter with date of death, if known.”
**(b)** Postmasters, delivery clerks, letter carriers, and all other postal employees are prohibited from delivering any mail addressed by the United States and containing any such check to any person whomsoever if such person has died or in the case of a surviving spouse, if the postal employee believes that the surviving spouse has remarried (unless the mail is addressed to the surviving spouse in the name the surviving spouse has acquired by the remarriage). The preceding sentence shall apply in the case of checks in payment of benefits other than pension, compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, and insurance, only insofar as the Secretary deems it necessary to protect the United States against loss.
**(c)** Whenever mail is not delivered because of the prohibition of subsection (b), such mail shall be returned forthwith by the po
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**(a)** Monetary benefits under laws administered by the Secretary shall be paid by checks drawn, pursuant to certification by the Secretary, in such form as to protect the United States against loss, and payable by the Treasurer of the United States. Such checks shall be payable without separate vouchers or receipts except in any case in which the Secretary may consider a voucher necessary for the protection of the Government. Such checks shall be transmitted by mail to the payee thereof at the payee’s last known address and, if the payee has moved and filed a regular change of address notice with the United States Postal Service, shall be forwarded to the payee. The envelope or cover of each such checks shall bear on the face thereof the following notice: “POSTMASTER: PLEASE FORWARD if addressee has moved and filed a regular change-of-address notice. If addressee is deceased, return the letter with date of death, if known.”
**(b)** Postmasters, delivery clerks, letter carriers, and all other postal employees are prohibited from delivering any mail addressed by the United States and containing any such check to any person whomsoever if such person has died or in the case of a surviving spouse, if the postal employee believes that the surviving spouse has remarried (unless the mail is addressed to the surviving spouse in the name the surviving spouse has acquired by the remarriage). The preceding sentence shall apply in the case of checks in payment of benefits other than pension, compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, and insurance, only insofar as the Secretary deems it necessary to protect the United States against loss.
**(c)** Whenever mail is not delivered because of the prohibition of subsection (b), such mail shall be returned forthwith by the postmaster with a statement of the reason for so doing, and if because of death or remarriage, the date thereof, if known. Checks returned under this subsection because of death or remarriage shall be canceled.
**(d)** Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, pursuant to an agreement with the Department of the Treasury under which the Secretary certifies such benefits for payment, monetary benefits under laws administered by the Secretary may be paid other than by check upon the written request of the person to whom such benefits are to be paid, if such noncheck payment is determined by the Secretary to be in the best interest of such payees and the management of monetary benefits programs by the Department.
**(e)** Whenever the first day of any calendar month falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal public holiday (as defined in [section 6103 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section6103&num=0&edition=prelim)), the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, certify benefit payments for such month in such a way that such payments will be delivered by mail, or transmitted for credit to the payee’s account pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, on the Friday immediately preceding such Saturday or Sunday, or in the case of a legal holiday, the weekday (other than Saturday) immediately preceding such legal public holiday, notwithstanding that such delivery or transmission of such payments is made in the same calendar month for which such payments are issued.
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(1) In the case of a payee who does not have a mailing address, payments of monetary benefits under laws administered by the Secretary shall be delivered under an appropriate method prescribed pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection.
(2) The Secretary shall prescribe an appropriate method or methods for the delivery of payments of monetary benefits under laws administered by the Secretary in cases described in paragraph (1) of this subsection. To the maximum extent practicable, such method or methods shall be designed to ensure the delivery of payments in such cases.
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**(a)** The following are legal public holidays:New Year’s Day, January 1. Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., the third Monday in January. Washington’s Birthday, the third Monday in February. Memorial Day, the last Monday in May. Juneteenth National Independence Day, June 19. Independence Day, July 4. Labor Day, the first Monday in September. Columbus Day, the second Monday in October. Veterans Day, November 11. Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November. Christmas Day, December 25.
**(b)** For the purpose of statutes relating to pay and leave of employees, with respect to a legal public holiday and any other day declared to be a holiday by Federal statute or Executive order, the following rules apply:
(1) Instead of a holiday that occurs on a Saturday, the Friday immediately before is a legal public holiday for—
(A) employees whose basic workweek is Monday through Friday; and
(B) the purpose of section 6309 11 See References in Text note below. of this title.
(2) Instead of a holiday that occurs on a regular weekly non-workday of an employee whose basic workweek is other than Monday through Friday, except the regular weekly non-workday administratively scheduled for the employee instead of Sunday, the workday immediately before that regular weekly nonworkday is a legal public holiday for the employee.
(3) Instead of a holiday that is designated under subsection (a) to occur on a Monday, for an employee at a duty post outside the United States whose basic workweek is other than Monday through Friday, and for whom Monday is a regularly scheduled workday, the legal public holiday is the first workday of the workweek in which the Monday designated for the observance of such holiday under subsection (a) occurs.
This subsection, except subparagraph (B) of
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**(a) In General.—** Subject to the provisions of this section, the Secretary of Defense may authorize the Secretary concerned, to promote recruitment and retention of members of the Armed Forces, to permit an individual described in subsection (b) who is entitled to basic educational assistance under this subchapter to elect to transfer to one or more of the dependents specified in subsection (c) the unused portion of entitlement to such assistance, subject to the limitation under subsection (d).
**(b) Eligible Individuals.—** An individual referred to in subsection (a) is any member of the Armed Forces—
(1) who, while serving on active duty or as a member of the Selected Reserve at the time of the approval by the Secretary concerned of the member’s request to transfer entitlement to basic educational assistance under this section, has completed six years of service in the Armed Forces and enters into an agreement to serve at least four more years as a member of the Armed Forces; or
(2) as determined in regulations pursuant to subsection (k).
**(c) Eligible Dependents.—** An individual approved to transfer an entitlement to basic educational assistance under this section may transfer the individual’s entitlement as follows:
(1) To the individual’s spouse.
(2) To one or more of the individual’s children.
(3) To a combination of the individuals referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2).
**(d) Limitation on Months of Transfer.—**
(1) An individual approved to transfer an entitlement to basic educational assistance under this section may transfer any unused entitlement to one or more of the dependents specified in subsection (c).
(2) The total number of months of entitlement transferred by an individual under this section may not exceed 36 months. The Secretary of De
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 5120
section (a) [amending this section] shall apply to appli-
cations first made under section 3513 of title 38, United
States Code, that—
‘‘(1) are received on or after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act [Nov. 1, 2000]; or
‘‘(2) on the date of the enactment of this Act, are
pending (A) with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or
(B) exhaustion of available administrative and judi-
cial remedies.’’
SUBCHAPTER III—PAYMENT OF BENEFITS
§ 5120. Payment of benefits; delivery
(a) Monetary benefits under laws administered
by the Secretary shall be paid by checks drawn,
pursuant to certification by the Secretary, in
such form as to protect the United States
against loss, and payable by the Treasurer of the
United States. Such checks shall be payable
without separate vouchers or receipts except in
any case in which the Secretary may consider a
voucher necessary for the protection of the Gov-
ernment. Such checks shall be transmitted by
mail to the payee thereof at the payee’s last
known address and, if the payee has moved and
filed a regular change of address notice with the
United States Postal Service, shall be forwarded
to the payee. The envelope or cover of each such
checks shall bear on the face thereof the fol-
lowing notice: ‘‘POSTMASTER: PLEASE FOR-
WARD if addressee has moved and filed a reg-
ular change-of-address notice. If addressee is de-
ceased, return the letter with date of death, if
known.’’
(b) Postmasters, delivery clerks, letter car-
riers, and all other postal employees are prohib-
ited from delivering any mail addressed by the
United States and containing any such check to
any person whomsoever if such person has died
or in the case of a surviving spouse, if the postal
employee believes t
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