---
kind: "unit"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief"
key: "chI/part9"
level: "part"
label: "Part 9"
heading: "Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/chI-part9"
sections_count: 19
---

# Part 9 — Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance

Title 38 C.F.R. — Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief › Chapter I — Department of Veterans Affairs

## Sections

- [§9.1. Definitions.](/cfr/38/9.1.md)
- [§9.2. Effective date; applications.](/cfr/38/9.2.md)
- [§9.3. Waiver or reduction of coverage.](/cfr/38/9.3.md)
- [§9.4. Beneficiaries and options.](/cfr/38/9.4.md)
- [§9.5. Payment of proceeds.](/cfr/38/9.5.md)
- [§9.6. Assignments.](/cfr/38/9.6.md)
- [§9.7. Administrative decisions.](/cfr/38/9.7.md)
- [§9.8. Termination of coverage.](/cfr/38/9.8.md)
- [§9.9. Conversion privilege.](/cfr/38/9.9.md)
- [§9.10. Health standards.](/cfr/38/9.10.md)
- [§9.11. Criteria for reinsurers and converters.](/cfr/38/9.11.md)
- [§9.12. Reinsurance formula.](/cfr/38/9.12.md)
- [§9.13. Actions on the policy.](/cfr/38/9.13.md)
- [§9.14. Accelerated Benefits.](/cfr/38/9.14.md)
- [§9.20. Traumatic injury protection.](/cfr/38/9.20.md)
- [§9.21. Schedule of Losses.](/cfr/38/9.21.md)
- [§9.22. VA's access to records maintained by the insurer, reinsurer(s), and their successors.](/cfr/38/9.22.md)
- [§9.23. Submission of certain applications and forms affecting entitlement to Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance.](/cfr/38/9.23.md)
- [§9.24. Insurable dependents who become eligible members, and eligible members who marry eligible members.](/cfr/38/9.24.md)