---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1137"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1137"
heading: "Wartime presumptions for certain veterans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1137"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 11 — Compensation for Service-Connected Disability or Death"
  - "Subchapter IV — Peacetime Disability Compensation"
---

# §1137. Wartime presumptions for certain veterans


For the purposes of this subchapter and subchapter V of this chapter and notwithstanding the provisions of sections [1132](/usc/38/1132.md) and [1133](/usc/38/1133.md) of this subchapter, the provisions of sections [1111](/usc/38/1111.md), [1112](/usc/38/1112.md), and [1113](/usc/38/1113.md) of this chapter shall be applicable in the case of any [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) who served in the [active military, naval, air, or space service](/usc/38/101.md?p=24) after December 31, 1946.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 89–358, § 7(a), Mar. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 27, § 337; amended Pub. L. 93–295, title II, § 205, May 31, 1974, 88 Stat. 183; renumbered § 1137 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 926(a)(13), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3830.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “air, or space service” for “or air service”.

1991—Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), renumbered section 337 of this title as this section.

Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted “1132 and 1133” for “332 and 333” and “1111, 1112, and 1113” for “311, 312, and 313”.

1974—Pub. L. 93–295 substituted “December 31, 1946” for “January 31, 1955”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1974 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 93–295 effective May 1, 1974, see section 401 of Pub. L. 93–295, set out as a note under section 1114 of this title.