---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 5311"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "5311"
heading: "Prohibition of certain benefit payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/5311"
units:
  - "Part IV — General Administrative Provisions"
  - "Chapter 53 — Special Provisions Relating to Benefits"
---

# §5311. Prohibition of certain benefit payments


There shall be no payment of [dependency and indemnity compensation](/usc/38/101.md?p=14), death [compensation](/usc/38/101.md?p=13), or death [pension](/usc/38/101.md?p=15) which, because of a widow’s relationship with another man before enactment of Public Law 87–674, would not have been payable by the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2)’ Administration under the standard for determining remarriage applied by that agency before said enactment.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 91–376, § 8(b), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 790, § 3111; renumbered § 5311, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Public Law 87–674, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 87–674, Sept. 19, 1962, 76 Stat. 558, which was enacted Sept. 19, 1962, and amended sections 101, 103, and 3010 [now 5110] of this title to provide for the restoration of certain widows and children to the benefit rolls upon annulment of their marriages or remarriages.

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 3111 of this title as this section.