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SUBPART A—Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (§3.1 to §3.1009)

• 3.1—Definitions.
• 3.2—Periods of war.
• 3.3—Pension.
• 3.4—Compensation.
• 3.5—Dependency and indemnity compensation.
• 3.6—Duty periods.
• 3.7—Individuals and groups considered to have performed active military, naval, or air service.
• 3.10—Dependency and indemnity compensation rate for a surviving spouse.
• 3.11—Homicide.
• 3.12—Character of discharge.
• 3.12a—Minimum active-duty service requirement.
• 3.13—Discharge to change status.
• 3.14—Validity of enlistments.
• 3.15—Computation of service.
• 3.16—Service pension.
• 3.17—Disability and death pension; Mexican border period and later war periods.
• 3.20—Surviving spouse's benefit for month of veteran's death.
• 3.21—Monetary rates.
• 3.22—DIC benefits for survivors of certain veterans rated totally disabled at time of death.
• 3.23—Improved pension rates—Veterans and surviving spouses.
• 3.24—Improved pension rates—Surviving children.
• 3.25—Parent's dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC)—Method of payment computation.
• 3.26—Section 306 and old-law pension annual income limitations.
• 3.27—Automatic adjustment of benefit rates.
• 3.28—Automatic adjustment of section 306 and old-law pension income limitations.
• 3.29—Rounding.
• 3.30—Frequency of payment of improved pension and parents' dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC).
• 3.31—Commencement of the period of payment.
• 3.32—Exchange rates for foreign currencies.
• 3.40—Philippine and Insular Forces.
• 3.41—Philippine service.
• 3.42—Compensation at the full-dollar rate for certain Filipino veterans residing in the United States.
• 3.43—Burial benefits at the full-dollar rate for certain Filipino veterans residing in the United States on the date of death.
• 3.50—Spouse and surviving spouse.
• 3.52—Marriages deemed valid.
• 3.53—Continuous cohabitation.
• 3.54—Marriage dates.
• 3.55—Reinstatement of benefits eligibility based upon terminated marital relationships.
• 3.57—Child.
• 3.58—Child adopted out of family.
• 3.59—Parent.
• 3.60—Definition of “living with”.
• 3.100—Delegations of authority.
• 3.102—Reasonable doubt.
• 3.103—Procedural due process and appellate rights.
• 3.104—Finality of decisions.
• 3.105—Revision of decisions.
• 3.106—Renouncement.
• 3.107—Awards where not all dependents apply.
• 3.108—State Department as agent of Department of Veterans Affairs.
• 3.109—Time limit.
• 3.110—Computation of time limit.
• 3.112—Fractions of one cent.
• 3.114—Change of law or Department of Veterans Affairs issue.
• 3.115—Access to financial records.
• 3.150—Forms to be furnished.
• 3.151—Claims for disability benefits.
• 3.152—Claims for death benefits.
• 3.153—Claims filed with Social Security.
• 3.154—Injury due to hospital treatment, etc.
• 3.155—Informal claims.
• 3.156—New and material evidence.
• 3.157—Report of examination or hospitalization as claim for increase or to reopen.
• 3.158—Abandoned claims.
• 3.159—Department of Veterans Affairs assistance in developing claims.
• 3.160—Status of claims.
• 3.161—Expedited Claims Adjudication Initiative—Pilot Program.
• 3.200—Testimony certified or under oath.
• 3.201—Exchange of evidence; Social Security and Department of Veterans Affairs.
• 3.202—Evidence from foreign countries.
• 3.203—Service records as evidence of service and character of discharge.
• 3.204—Evidence of dependents and age.
• 3.205—Marriage.
• 3.206—Divorce.
• 3.207—Void or annulled marriage.
• 3.208—Claims based on attained age.
• 3.209—Birth.
• 3.210—Child's relationship.
• 3.211—Death.
• 3.212—Unexplained absence for 7 years.
• 3.213—Change of status affecting entitlement.
• 3.214—Court decisions; unremarried surviving spouses.
• 3.215—Termination of marital relationship or conduct.
• 3.216—Mandatory disclosure of social security numbers.
• 3.217—Submission of statements or information affecting entitlement to benefits.
• 3.250—Dependency of parents; compensation.
• 3.251—Income of parents; dependency and indemnity compensation.
• 3.252—Annual income; pension; Mexican border period and later war periods.
• 3.256—Eligibility reporting requirements.
• 3.257—Children; no surviving spouse entitled.
• 3.260—Computation of income.
• 3.261—Character of income; exclusions and estates.
• 3.262—Evaluation of income.
• 3.263—Corpus of estate; net worth.
• 3.270—Applicability of various dependency, income and estate regulations.
• 3.271—Computation of income.
• 3.272—Exclusions from income.
• 3.273—Rate computation.
• 3.274—Relationship of net worth to pension entitlement.
• 3.275—Criteria for evaluating net worth.
• 3.276—Certain transfers or waivers disregarded.
• 3.277—Eligibility reporting requirements.
• 3.300—Claims based on the effects of tobacco products.
• 3.301—Line of duty and misconduct.
• 3.302—Service connection for mental unsoundness in suicide.
• 3.303—Principles relating to service connection.
• 3.304—Direct service connection; wartime and peacetime.
• 3.305—Direct service connection; peacetime service before January 1, 1947.
• 3.306—Aggravation of preservice disability.
• 3.307—Presumptive service connection for chronic, tropical or prisoner-of-war related disease, or disease associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents; wartime and service on or after J
• 3.308—Presumptive service connection; peacetime service before January 1, 1947.
• 3.309—Disease subject to presumptive service connection.
• 3.310—Disabilities that are proximately due to, or aggravated by, service-connected disease or injury.
• 3.311—Claims based on exposure to ionizing radiation.
• 3.312—Cause of death.
• 3.313—Claims based on service in Vietnam.
• 3.314—Basic pension determinations.
• 3.315—Basic eligibility determinations; dependents, loans, education.
• 3.316—Claims based on chronic effects of exposure to mustard gas and Lewisite.
• 3.317—Compensation for certain disabilities due to undiagnosed illnesses.
• 3.318—Presumptive service connection for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• 3.321—General rating considerations.
• 3.322—Rating of disabilities aggravated by service.
• 3.323—Combined ratings.
• 3.324—Multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities.
• 3.326—Examinations.
• 3.327—Reexaminations.
• 3.328—lndependent medical opinions.
• 3.330—Resumption of rating when veteran subsequently reports for Department of Veterans Affairs examination.
• 3.340—Total and permanent total ratings and unemployability.
• 3.341—Total disability ratings for compensation purposes.
• 3.342—Permanent and total disability ratings for pension purposes.
• 3.343—Continuance of total disability ratings.
• 3.344—Stabilization of disability evaluations.
• 3.350—Special monthly compensation ratings.
• 3.351—Special monthly dependency and indemnity compensation, death compensation, pension and spouse's compensation ratings.
• 3.352—Criteria for determining need for aid and attendance and “permanently bedridden.”
• 3.353—Determinations of incompetency and competency.
• 3.354—Determinations of insanity.
• 3.355—Testamentary capacity for insurance purposes.
• 3.356—Conditions which determine permanent incapacity for self-support.
• 3.357—Civil service preference ratings.
• 3.358—Compensation for disability or death from hospitalization, medical or surgical treatment, examinations or vocational rehabilitation training (§ 3.800).
• 3.359—Determination of service connection for former members of the Armed Forces of Czechoslovakia or Poland.
• 3.360—Service-connected health-care eligibility of certain persons administratively discharged under other than honorable condition.
• 3.361—Benefits under 38 U.S.C. 1151(a) for additional disability or death due to hospital care, medical or surgical treatment, examination, training and rehabilitation services, or compensated
• 3.362—Offsets under 38 U.S.C. 1151(b) of benefits awarded under 38 U.S.C. 1151(a).
• 3.363—Bar to benefits under 38 U.S.C. 1151.
• 3.370—Pulmonary tuberculosis shown by X-ray in active service.
• 3.371—Presumptive service connection for tuberculous disease; wartime and service on or after January 1, 1947.
• 3.372—Initial grant following inactivity of tuberculosis.
• 3.374—Effect of diagnosis of active tuberculosis.
• 3.375—Determination of inactivity (complete arrest) in tuberculosis.
• 3.378—Changes from activity in pulmonary tuberculosis pension cases.
• 3.379—Anterior poliomyelitis.
• 3.380—Diseases of allergic etiology.
• 3.381—Service connection of dental conditions for treatment purposes.
• 3.383—Special consideration for paired organs and extremities.
• 3.384—Psychosis.
• 3.385—Disability due to impaired hearing.
• 3.400—General.
• 3.401—Veterans.
• 3.402—Surviving spouse.
• 3.403—Children.
• 3.404—Parents.
• 3.405—Filipino veterans and their survivors; benefits at the full-dollar rate.
• 3.450—General.
• 3.451—Special apportionments.
• 3.452—Situations when benefits may be apportioned.
• 3.453—Veterans compensation or service pension or retirement pay.
• 3.454—Veterans disability pension.
• 3.458—Veteran's benefits not apportionable.
• 3.459—Death compensation.
• 3.460—Death pension.
• 3.461—Dependency and indemnity compensation.
• 3.500—General.
• 3.501—Veterans.
• 3.502—Surviving spouses.
• 3.503—Children.
• 3.504—Parents; aid and attendance.
• 3.505—Filipino veterans and their survivors; benefits at the full-dollar rate.
• 3.551—Reduction because of hospitalization.
• 3.552—Adjustment of allowance for aid and attendance.
• 3.556—Adjustment on discharge or release.
• 3.558—Resumption and payment of withheld benefits; incompetents with estates that equaled or exceeded statutory limit.
• 3.650—Rate for additional dependent.
• 3.651—Change in status of dependents.
• 3.652—Periodic certification of continued eligibility.
• 3.653—Foreign residence.
• 3.654—Active service pay.
• 3.655—Failure to report for Department of Veterans Affairs examination.
• 3.656—Disappearance of veteran.
• 3.657—Surviving spouse becomes entitled, or entitlement terminates.
• 3.658—Offsets; dependency and indemnity compensation.
• 3.659—Two parents in same parental line.
• 3.660—Dependency, income and estate.
• 3.661—Eligibility Verification Reports.
• 3.665—Incarcerated beneficiaries and fugitive felons—compensation.
• 3.666—Incarcerated beneficiaries and fugitive felons—pension.
• 3.667—School attendance.
• 3.669—Forfeiture.
• 3.700—General.
• 3.701—Elections of pension or compensation.
• 3.702—Dependency and indemnity compensation.
• 3.703—Two parents in same parental line.
• 3.704—Elections within class of dependents.
• 3.707—Dependents' educational assistance.
• 3.708—Federal Employees' Compensation.
• 3.710—Civil service annuitants.
• 3.711—Improved pension elections.
• 3.712—Improved pension elections; surviving spouses of Spanish-American War veterans.
• 3.713—Effective dates of improved pension elections.
• 3.714—Improved pension elections—public assistance beneficiaries.
• 3.715—Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990, as amended.
• 3.750—Entitlement to concurrent receipt of military retired pay and disability compensation.
• 3.751—Statutory awards; retired service personnel.
• 3.753—Public Health Service.
• 3.754—Emergency officers' retirement pay.
• 3.800—Disability or death due to hospitalization, etc.
• 3.801—Special acts.
• 3.802—Medal of Honor.
• 3.803—Naval pension.
• 3.804—Special allowance under 38 U.S.C. 1312.
• 3.805—Loan guaranty for surviving spouses; certification.
• 3.806—Death gratuity; certification.
• 3.807—Dependents' educational assistance; certification.
• 3.808—Automobiles or other conveyances; certification.
• 3.809—Specially adapted housing under 38 U.S.C. 2101(a).
• 3.809a—Special home adaptation grants under 38 U.S.C. 2101(b).
• 3.810—Clothing allowance.
• 3.811—Minimum income annuity and gratuitous annuity.
• 3.812—Special allowance payable under section 156 of Pub. L. 97-377.
• 3.813—Interim benefits for disability or death due to chloracne or porphyria cutanea tarda.
• 3.814—Monetary allowance under 38 U.S.C. chapter 18 for an individual suffering from spina bifida whose biological father or mother is or was a Vietnam veteran.
• 3.815—Monetary allowance under 38 U.S.C. chapter 18 for an individual with disability from covered birth defects whose biological mother is or was a Vietnam veteran; identification of covered b
• 3.816—Awards under the Nehmer Court Orders for disability or death caused by a condition presumptively associated with herbicide exposure.
• 3.850—General.
• 3.851—St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC.
• 3.852—Institutional awards.
• 3.853—Incompetents; estate over $25,000.
• 3.854—Limitation on payments for minor.
• 3.855—Beneficiary rated or reported incompetent.
• 3.856—Change of name of female fiduciary.
• 3.857—Children's benefits to fiduciary of surviving spouse.
• 3.900—General.
• 3.901—Fraud.
• 3.902—Treasonable acts.
• 3.903—Subversive activities.
• 3.904—Effect of forfeiture after veteran's death.
• 3.905—Declaration of forfeiture or remission of forfeiture.
• 3.950—Helpless children; Spanish-American and prior wars.
• 3.951—Preservation of disability ratings.
• 3.952—Protected ratings.
• 3.953—Pub. L. 85-56 and Pub. L. 85-857.
• 3.954—Burial allowance.
• 3.957—Service connection.
• 3.958—Federal employees' compensation cases.
• 3.959—Tuberculosis.
• 3.960—Section 306 and old-law pension protection.
• 3.1000—Entitlement under 38 U.S.C. 5121 to benefits due and unpaid upon death of a beneficiary.
• 3.1001—Hospitalized competent veterans.
• 3.1002—Political subdivisions of United States.
• 3.1003—Returned and canceled checks.
• 3.1007—Hospitalized incompetent veterans.
• 3.1008—Accrued benefits payable to foreign beneficiaries.
• 3.1009—Personal funds of patients.