---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1953"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1953"
heading: "Assignments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1953"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 19 — Insurance"
  - "Subchapter II — United States Government Life Insurance"
---

# §1953. Assignments


Any person to whom United States Government life [insurance](/usc/38/1901.md?p=1) shall be payable may assign such person’s interest in such [insurance](/usc/38/1901.md?p=1) to the [spouse](/usc/38/101.md?p=31), [child](/usc/38/1901.md?p=3), grandchild, [parent](/usc/38/1901.md?p=4), brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law of the insured. Insofar as applicable, the definitions contained in section 3 of the World War [Veterans](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1)’ Act, 1924, in effect on December 31, 1958, shall apply to this section.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1161, § 753; Pub. L. 96–128, title III, § 304, Nov. 28, 1979, 93 Stat. 986; renumbered § 1953, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 3 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, referred to in text, is section 3 of act June 7, 1924, ch. 320, 43 Stat. 607, which was classified to section 424 of former Title 38, Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans’ Relief, and which was repealed and the provisions thereof reenacted as section 101 of this title by Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1105.

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 753 of this title as this section.

1979—Pub. L. 96–128 substituted “such person’s” for “his”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1979 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 96–128 effective Nov. 28, 1979, see section 601(b) of Pub. L. 96–128, set out as a note under section 1114 of this title.