---
kind: "unit"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
key: "ptII/ch19/schI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter I"
heading: "National Service Life Insurance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/ptII-ch19-schI"
sections_count: 31
---

# Subchapter I — National Service Life Insurance

Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits › Part II — General Benefits › Chapter 19 — Insurance

## Sections

- [§1901. Definitions](/usc/38/1901.md)
- [§1902. Premium rates and policy values](/usc/38/1902.md)
- [§1903. Amount of insurance](/usc/38/1903.md)
- [§1904. Plans of insurance](/usc/38/1904.md)
- [§1905. Renewal](/usc/38/1905.md)
- [§1906. Policy provisions](/usc/38/1906.md)
- [§1907. Payment or use of dividends](/usc/38/1907.md)
- [§1908. Premium payments](/usc/38/1908.md)
- [§1909. Effective date of insurance](/usc/38/1909.md)
- [§1910. Incontestability](/usc/38/1910.md)
- [§1911. Forfeiture](/usc/38/1911.md)
- [§1912. Total disability waiver](/usc/38/1912.md)
- [§1913. Death before six months’ total disability](/usc/38/1913.md)
- [§1914. Statutory total disabilities](/usc/38/1914.md)
- [§1915. Total disability income provision](/usc/38/1915.md)
- [§1916. Insurance which matured before](/usc/38/1916.md)
- [§1917. Insurance maturing on or after](/usc/38/1917.md)
- [§1918. Assignments](/usc/38/1918.md)
- [§1919. National Service Life Insurance appropriation](/usc/38/1919.md)
- [§1920. National Service Life Insurance Fund](/usc/38/1920.md)
- [§1921. Extra hazard costs](/usc/38/1921.md)
- [§1922. Legacy service disabled veterans’ insurance](/usc/38/1922.md)
- [§1922A. Legacy supplemental service disabled veterans’ insurance for totally disabled veterans](/usc/38/1922A.md)
- [§1922B. Service-disabled veterans insurance](/usc/38/1922B.md)
- [§1923. Veterans’ Special Life Insurance](/usc/38/1923.md)
- [§1924. In-service waiver of premiums](/usc/38/1924.md)
- [§1925. Limited period for acquiring insurance](/usc/38/1925.md)
- [§1926. Authority for higher interest rates for amounts payable to beneficiaries](/usc/38/1926.md)
- [§1927. Authority for higher monthly installments payable to certain annuitants](/usc/38/1927.md)
- [§1928. Authority for payment of interest on settlements](/usc/38/1928.md)
- [§1929. Authority to adjust premium discount rates](/usc/38/1929.md)