---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1507"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1507"
heading: "Disappearance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1507"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 15 — Pension for Non-Service-Connected Disability or Death or for Service"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §1507. Disappearance


Where a [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) receiving [pension](/usc/38/101.md?p=15) under subchapter II of this chapter disappears, the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may pay the [pension](/usc/38/101.md?p=15) otherwise payable to such [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1)’s [spouse](/usc/38/101.md?p=31) and children. In applying the provisions of this section, the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may presume, without reports pursuant to [section 1506(a) of this title](/usc/38/1506.md), that the status of the [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) at the time of disappearance, with respect to permanent and total [disability](/usc/38/1701.md?p=1), income, and net worth, continues unchanged. Payments made to a [spouse](/usc/38/101.md?p=31) or [child](/usc/38/1831.md?p=1) under this section shall not exceed the amount to which each would be entitled if the [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) died of a [non-service-connected](/usc/38/101.md?p=17) [disability](/usc/38/1701.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 89–467, § 1(a), June 22, 1966, 80 Stat. 218, § 507; amended Pub. L. 94–169, title I, § 106(15), Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1017; renumbered § 1507 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, §§ 4(b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404–406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Prior section 1507 was renumbered section 3107 of this title.

Another prior section 1507, Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1173; Pub. L. 92–540, title I, § 101(3), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1074; Pub. L. 94–502, title I, § 104(6), Oct. 15, 1976, 90 Stat. 2384, related to loans to trainees commencing or undertaking courses of vocational rehabilitation under chapter 31 of this title, prior to repeal, effective Oct. 1, 1980, by Pub. L. 96–466, title VIII, § 802(a)(4), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2218. See section 3112 of this title.

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), renumbered section 507 of this title as this section.

Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted “1506(a)” for “506(a)”.

Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” in two places.

1975—Pub. L. 94–169 struck out “in his discretion” after “Administrator” and substituted “payable to such veteran’s spouse” for “payable to his wife,” and “made to a spouse” for “made to a wife”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1975 Amendment

Pub. L. 94–169, title I, § 106, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1017, provided that the amendment made by that section is effective Jan. 1, 1976.