---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1152"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1152"
heading: "Persons heretofore having a compensable status"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1152"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 11 — Compensation for Service-Connected Disability or Death"
  - "Subchapter VI — General Compensation Provisions"
---

# §1152. Persons heretofore having a compensable status


The death and [disability](/usc/38/1701.md?p=1) benefits of this chapter shall, notwithstanding the service requirements thereof, be granted to persons heretofore recognized by law as having a compensable status, including persons whose claims are based on war or peacetime service rendered before April 21, 1898.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1124, § 352; renumbered § 1152, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 352 of this title as this section.