---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1155"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1155"
heading: "Statement of benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1155"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 58 — Benefits and Services for Members Being Separated or Recently Separated"
---

# §1155. Statement of benefits

- (a) **Before Separation.—** Not later than 30 days before a member retires, is released, is discharged, or otherwise separates from the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) (or as soon as is practicable in the case of an unanticipated separation), the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) shall provide that member with a current assessment of all benefits to which that member may be entitled under laws administered by—
  - (1) the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense; and
  - (2) the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Veterans Affairs.
- (b) **Statement for Reserves.—** The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) shall provide a member of a [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) with a current assessment of benefits described in [subsection (a)](#a) upon [release](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) of that member from [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title V, § 522(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1756.)