---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 5126"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "5126"
heading: "Benefits not to be denied based on lack of mailing address"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/5126"
units:
  - "Part IV — General Administrative Provisions"
  - "Chapter 51 — Claims, Effective Dates, and Payments"
  - "Subchapter III — Payment of Benefits"
---

# §5126. Benefits not to be denied based on lack of mailing address


Benefits under laws administered by the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may not be denied a [claimant](/usc/38/5100.md?p=1) on the basis that the [claimant](/usc/38/5100.md?p=1) does not have a mailing address.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–475, § 3(b), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2098.)