---
kind: "unit"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
key: "ptII/ch11/schIV"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter IV"
heading: "Peacetime Disability Compensation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/ptII-ch11-schIV"
sections_count: 7
---

# Subchapter IV — Peacetime Disability Compensation

Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits › Part II — General Benefits › Chapter 11 — Compensation for Service-Connected Disability or Death

## Sections

- [§1131. Basic entitlement](/usc/38/1131.md)
- [§1132. Presumption of sound condition](/usc/38/1132.md)
- [§1133. Presumptions relating to certain diseases](/usc/38/1133.md)
- [§1134. Rates of peacetime disability compensation](/usc/38/1134.md)
- [§1135. Additional compensation for dependents](/usc/38/1135.md)
- [§1136. Vacant](/usc/38/1136.md)
- [§1137. Wartime presumptions for certain veterans](/usc/38/1137.md)