---
kind: "unit"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
key: "ptII/ch13/schII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter II"
heading: "Dependency and Indemnity Compensation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/ptII-ch13-schII"
sections_count: 9
---

# Subchapter II — Dependency and Indemnity Compensation

Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits › Part II — General Benefits › Chapter 13 — Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-Connected Deaths

## Sections

- [§1310. Deaths entitling survivors to dependency and indemnity compensation](/usc/38/1310.md)
- [§1311. Dependency and indemnity compensation to a surviving spouse](/usc/38/1311.md)
- [§1312. Benefits in certain cases of in-service or service-connected deaths](/usc/38/1312.md)
- [§1313. Dependency and indemnity compensation to children](/usc/38/1313.md)
- [§1314. Supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation to children](/usc/38/1314.md)
- [§1315. Dependency and indemnity compensation to parents](/usc/38/1315.md)
- [§1316. Dependency and indemnity compensation in cases of prior deaths](/usc/38/1316.md)
- [§1317. Restriction on payments under this chapter](/usc/38/1317.md)
- [§1318. Benefits for survivors of certain veterans rated totally disabled at time of death](/usc/38/1318.md)