Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

38 U.S.C. § 5311

Prohibition of certain benefit payments

Public Law 87–674There shall be no payment of dependency and indemnity compensation, death compensation, or death pension which, because of a widow’s relationship with another man before enactment of , would not have been payable by the Veterans’ Administration under the standard for determining remarriage applied by that agency before said enactment.

Pub. L. 91–376, § 8(b)84 Stat. 790Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1)105 Stat. 238(Added , , , § 3111; renumbered § 5311, , , .)

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Public Law 87–674Pub. L. 87–67476 Stat. 558, referred to in text, is , , , which was enacted , and amended sections 101, 103, and 3010 [now 5110] of this title to provide for the restoration of certain widows and children to the benefit rolls upon annulment of their marriages or remarriages.

Amendments

Pub. L. 102–40section 3111 of this title1991— renumbered as this section.