---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1940"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1940"
heading: "Definition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1940"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 19 — Insurance"
  - "Subchapter II — United States Government Life Insurance"
---

# §1940. Definition


For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “[insurance](/usc/38/1901.md?p=1)” means United States Government life [insurance](/usc/38/1901.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1158, § 740; renumbered § 1940, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 740 of this title as this section.