---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 4.19"
title: "38"
number: "4.19"
heading: "Age in service-connected claims."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/4.19"
---

# §4.19. Age in service-connected claims.


Age may not be considered as a factor in evaluating service-connected disability; and unemployability, in service-connected claims, associated with advancing age or intercurrent disability, may not be used as a basis for a total disability rating. Age, as such, is a factor only in evaluations of disability not resulting from service, i.e., for the purposes of pension.


## Notes

### Amendments

[29 FR 6718, May 22, 1964, as amended at 43 FR 45349, Oct. 2, 1978]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 1155, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 29 FR 6718, May 22, 1964, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[29 FR 6718, May 22, 1964, as amended at 43 FR 45349, Oct. 2, 1978]