---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.6503"
title: "38"
number: "21.6503"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.6503"
---

# §21.6503. Definitions.

- (a) **Program period.** The term program period means the period beginning on February 1, 1985, and ending December 31, 1992.
- (b) **Qualified veteran.** The term qualified veteran means a veteran who has a service-connected disability, or service-connected disabilities, not rated as total, but who has been awarded a rating of total disability by reason of inability to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation as a result of such disability or disabilities. Such a rating is referred to as an IU (individual unemployability) rating. See §§ [3.340](/cfr/38/3.340.md), [3.341](/cfr/38/3.341.md), and [4.16](/cfr/38/4.16.md) of this title.
- (c) **Receives an IU rating.** The phrase receives an IU rating refers to the date of the rating decision authorizing total disability compensation based upon individual unemployability.

## Notes

### Amendments

[51 FR 19333, May 29, 1986. Redesignated at 53 FR 4397, Feb. 16, 1988, as amended at 55 FR 17272, Apr. 24, 1990; 58 FR 41637, Aug. 5, 1993]

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 98-543, sec. 111; 38 U.S.C. 1163; Pub. L. 100-687, sec. 1301, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 51 FR 19333, May 29, 1986, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 53 FR 4397, Feb. 16, 1988.

### Amendments

[51 FR 19333, May 29, 1986. Redesignated at 53 FR 4397, Feb. 16, 1988, as amended at 55 FR 17272, Apr. 24, 1990; 58 FR 41637, Aug. 5, 1993]