---
kind: "unit"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
key: "ptII/ch11/schVI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter VI"
heading: "General Compensation Provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/ptII-ch11-schVI"
sections_count: 19
---

# Subchapter VI — General Compensation Provisions

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

## Sections

- [§1151. Benefits for persons disabled by treatment or vocational rehabilitation](/usc/38/1151.md)
- [§1152. Persons heretofore having a compensable status](/usc/38/1152.md)
- [§1153. Aggravation](/usc/38/1153.md)
- [§1154. Consideration to be accorded time, place, and circumstances of service](/usc/38/1154.md)
- [§1155. Authority for schedule for rating disabilities](/usc/38/1155.md)
- [§1156. Temporary disability ratings](/usc/38/1156.md)
- [§1157. Combination of certain ratings](/usc/38/1157.md)
- [§1158. Disappearance](/usc/38/1158.md)
- [§1159. Protection of service connection](/usc/38/1159.md)
- [§1160. Special consideration for certain cases of loss of paired organs or extremities](/usc/38/1160.md)
- [§1161. Payment of disability compensation in disability severance cases](/usc/38/1161.md)
- [§1162. Clothing allowance](/usc/38/1162.md)
- [§1163. Trial work periods and vocational rehabilitation for certain veterans with total disability ratings](/usc/38/1163.md)
- [§1164. Presumptions of service-connection for Coronavirus Disease 2019](/usc/38/1164.md)
- [§1165. Choice of sex of medical examiner for certain disabilities](/usc/38/1165.md)
- [§1166. Claims involving military sexual trauma](/usc/38/1166.md)
- [§1167. Outreach pursuant to changes in presumptions of service connection](/usc/38/1167.md)
- [§1168. Medical nexus examinations for toxic exposure risk activities](/usc/38/1168.md)
- [§1167. Mental health consultations](/usc/38/1167.md)