---
kind: "unit"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
key: "ptI/ch1"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 1"
heading: "General"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/ptI-ch1"
sections_count: 20
---

# Chapter 1 — General

Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits › Part I — General Provisions

## Sections

- [§101. Definitions](/usc/38/101.md)
- [§102. Dependent parents](/usc/38/102.md)
- [§103. Special provisions relating to marriages](/usc/38/103.md)
- [§104. Approval of educational institutions](/usc/38/104.md)
- [§105. Line of duty and misconduct](/usc/38/105.md)
- [§106. Certain service deemed to be active service](/usc/38/106.md)
- [§107. Certain service deemed not to be active service](/usc/38/107.md)
- [§108. Seven-year absence presumption of death](/usc/38/108.md)
- [§109. Benefits for discharged members of allied forces](/usc/38/109.md)
- [§110. Preservation of disability ratings](/usc/38/110.md)
- [§111. Payments or allowances for beneficiary travel](/usc/38/111.md)
- [§111A. Transportation of individuals to and from Department facilities](/usc/38/111A.md)
- [§112. Presidential memorial certificate program](/usc/38/112.md)
- [§113. Treatment of certain programs under sequestration procedures](/usc/38/113.md)
- [§114. Multiyear procurement](/usc/38/114.md)
- [§115. Acquisition of real property](/usc/38/115.md)
- [§116. Reports to Congress: cost information](/usc/38/116.md)
- [§117. Advance appropriations for certain accounts](/usc/38/117.md)
- [§118. Submission of reports to Congress in electronic form](/usc/38/118.md)
- [§119. Contracting for statistical analyses and data evaluation](/usc/38/119.md)