---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1641k"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1641k"
heading: "Prohibition against payment of award to collaborators or disloyal persons"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1641k"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Settlement of International Claims"
  - "Subchapter III — Claims Against Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Italy, and the Soviet Union"
---

# §1641k. Prohibition against payment of award to collaborators or disloyal persons


No award shall be made under this subchapter to or for the benefit of any [person](/usc/22/1621.md?p=a) who voluntarily, knowingly, and without duress, gave [aid](/usc/22/2421e.md?p=1) to or collaborated with or in any manner served any government hostile to the [United States](/usc/22/1621.md?p=b) during World War II, or who has been convicted of a violation of any provision of [chapter 115](/usc/18/chptI/ch115.md), of title 18, or of any other crime involving disloyalty to the [United States](/usc/22/1621.md?p=b).


## Source credit

(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title III, § 312, as added Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 645, § 3, 69 Stat. 574.)