---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 916"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "916"
heading: "Assignment and exemption from claims of creditors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/916"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation"
---

# §916. Assignment and exemption from claims of creditors


No assignment, release, or commutation of [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) or benefits due or payable under this chapter, except as provided by this chapter, shall be valid, and such [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) and benefits shall be exempt from all claims of creditors and from levy, execution, and attachment or other remedy for recovery or collection of a debt, which exemption may not be waived.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 16, 44 Stat. 1434.)