38 U.S.C. § 5121
Payment of certain accrued benefits upon death of a beneficiary
United States · Title 38 — VETERANS’ BENEFITS · Status: effective
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- 38 U.S.C. § 5121, Payment of certain accrued benefits upon death of a beneficiary, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/473433
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Except as provided in sections 3329 and 3330 of title 31, periodic monetary benefits (other than insurance and servicemen’s indemnity) under laws administered by the Secretary to which an individual was entitled at death under existing ratings or decisions or those based on evidence in the file at date of death (hereinafter in this section and section 5122 of this title referred to as “accrued benefits”) and due and unpaid, shall, upon the death of such individual be paid as follows:
Upon the death of a veteran, to the living person first listed below:
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- A bill to revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to money and finance, as title 31, United States Code, "Money and Finance".House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans Health Care Amendments of 1983House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Veterans Affairs Health-Care Personnel Act of 1991House: 399–0Senate: no recorded tally
- Department of Veterans Affairs Codification ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act of 1996House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Survivor Benefits Improvements Act of 2001House: 417–0Senate: no recorded tally
- Veterans Benefits Act of 2003House: 399–0Senate: no recorded tally