---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 8507"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "8507"
heading: "Payment of small shipping charges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/8507"
units:
  - "Part VI — Acquisition and Disposition of Property"
  - "Chapter 85 — Disposition of Deceased Veterans’ Personal Property"
  - "Subchapter I — Property Left on Department Facility"
---

# §8507. Payment of small shipping charges


Upon receipt of a proper claim for such property under the provisions of this subchapter the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) is hereby authorized, in the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1)’s discretion and in accordance with regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1), to pay mailing or shipping charges not to exceed $25 in the case of each deceased [veteran](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) as hereinabove defined.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1259, § 5207; Pub. L. 99–576, title VII, § 701(98), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3300; renumbered § 8507, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 5207 of this title as this section.

Pub. L. 102–83 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” in two places and “Secretary’s” for “Administrator’s”.

1986—Pub. L. 99–576 substituted “the Administrator’s” for “his” and “prescribed by the Administrator” for “by him promulgated”.