---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 506.5"
title: "45"
number: "506.5"
heading: "Persons not eligible to award of civilian detention benefits."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/506.5"
---

# §506.5. Persons not eligible to award of civilian detention benefits.


An individual is disqualified as a “civilian American citizen” under the Act, and thus is precluded from receiving an award of detention benefits, if that person:

- (a) Voluntarily, knowingly, and without duress, gave aid to or collaborated with or in any manner served the detaining hostile force; or
- (b) While detained, was a regularly appointed, enrolled, enlisted, or inducted member of the Armed Forces of the United States.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 2, Pub. L. 896, 80th Cong., as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2001).

### Source

Source: 66 FR 49844, Oct. 1, 2001, unless otherwise noted.