Fabio
76b8ec33a7
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
46 lines
2.9 KiB
Markdown
46 lines
2.9 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "LegalText"
|
||
title: "38 U.S.C. § 5306"
|
||
description: "Renouncement of right to benefits"
|
||
jurisdiction: "us"
|
||
corpus: "united_states_code"
|
||
kind: "code_section"
|
||
title_number: 38
|
||
title_name: "VETERANS’ BENEFITS"
|
||
chapter_number: "53"
|
||
chapter_name: "SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO BENEFITS"
|
||
section: "5306"
|
||
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 5306"
|
||
status: "current"
|
||
release_point: "119-100"
|
||
release_date: "2026-06-26"
|
||
source: "official"
|
||
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc38@119-100.zip"
|
||
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t38/s5306"
|
||
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-38/usc38.xml"
|
||
source_hash: "65be93f832423e76324cfb51597192919a058229df6b97a131d6e2bb0f8b6275"
|
||
raw_snapshot_hash: "372998691b72ade88787dfa7633dbda4954bd1b037ec7926c5e06e9b1d17fc66"
|
||
text_hash: "d287cafd5e86956fe4e415248315577735f64cef6f154b5e7a925a24ee8a3269"
|
||
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
|
||
confidence: "official"
|
||
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
# 38 U.S.C. § 5306 - Renouncement of right to benefits
|
||
|
||
## Text
|
||
|
||
(a) Any person entitled to pension, compensation, or dependency and indemnity compensation under any of the laws administered by the Secretary may renounce the right thereto. The application renouncing the right shall be in writing over the person’s signature. Upon the filing of such an application, payment of such benefits and the right thereto shall be terminated, and such person shall be denied any and all rights thereto from such filing.
|
||
|
||
(b) Renouncement of rights shall not preclude any person from filing a new application for pension, compensation, or dependency and indemnity compensation at a later date, but such new application shall be treated as an original application, and no payments shall be made for any period before the date such new application is filed.
|
||
|
||
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), if a new application for pension under chapter 15 of this title or for dependency and indemnity compensation for parents under section 1315 of this title is filed within one year after renouncement of that benefit, such application shall not be treated as an original application and benefits will be payable as if the renouncement had not occurred.
|
||
|
||
(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1231, § 3106; Pub. L. 99–576, title VII, § 701(73), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3297; renumbered § 5306, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(a)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 403; Pub. L. 103–446, title V, § 503, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4663.)
|
||
|
||
## Notes
|
||
|
||
Editorial Notes
|
||
|
||
Amendments1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–446 added subsec. (c). 1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 3106 of this title as this section. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–83 substituted “administered by the Secretary” for “administered by the Veterans’ Administration”. 1986—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–576 substituted “the” for “his” before “right” in first sentence.
|