---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7701"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7701"
heading: "Organization of the Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7701"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 77 — Veterans Benefits Administration"
  - "Subchapter I — Organization; General"
---

# §7701. Organization of the Administration

- (a) There is in the Department of Veterans Affairs a [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Benefits Administration. The primary function of the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Benefits Administration is the administration of nonmedical benefits programs of the [Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) which provide assistance to [veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) and their [dependents](/usc/38/3452.md?p=d) and survivors.
- (b) The [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Benefits Administration is under the Under [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) for Benefits, who is directly responsible to the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) for the operations of the Administration. The Under [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) for Benefits may be referred to as the Chief Benefits Director.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–83, § 2(b), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 399; amended Pub. L. 102–405, title III, § 302(c)(1), (3), Oct. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 1984.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–405 substituted “Under Secretary for Benefits” for “Chief Benefits Director” and inserted at end “The Under Secretary for Benefits may be referred to as the Chief Benefits Director.”