---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1914"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1914"
heading: "Statutory total disabilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1914"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 19 — Insurance"
  - "Subchapter I — National Service Life Insurance"
---

# §1914. Statutory total disabilities


Without prejudice to any other cause of [disability](/usc/38/1701.md?p=1), the permanent loss of the use of both feet, of both hands, or of both eyes, or of one foot and one hand, or of one foot and one eye, or of one hand and one eye, or the total loss of hearing of both ears, or the organic loss of speech, shall be deemed total [disability](/usc/38/1701.md?p=1) for [insurance](/usc/38/1901.md?p=1) purposes.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1151, § 714; renumbered § 1914, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 714 of this title as this section.