---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1958"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1958"
heading: "Statutory total permanent disability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1958"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 19 — Insurance"
  - "Subchapter II — United States Government Life Insurance"
---

# §1958. Statutory total permanent disability


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 loss of hearing of both ears, or the organic loss of speech, shall be deemed total permanent [disability](/usc/38/1701.md?p=1) for [insurance](/usc/38/1901.md?p=1) purposes. This section shall be deemed to be in effect on and after April 6, 1917, and shall apply only to automatic [insurance](/usc/38/1901.md?p=1), yearly renewable term [insurance](/usc/38/1901.md?p=1), and United States Government life [insurance](/usc/38/1901.md?p=1) issued prior to December 15, 1936.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1163, § 758; renumbered § 1958, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 758 of this title as this section.