---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1975"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1975"
heading: "Jurisdiction of District Courts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1975"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 19 — Insurance"
  - "Subchapter III — Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance"
---

# §1975. Jurisdiction of District Courts


The district courts of the United States shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action or claim against the United States founded upon this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 89–214, § 1(a), Sept. 29, 1965, 79 Stat. 885, § 775; renumbered § 1975, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 775 of this title as this section.