---
kind: "unit"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
key: "ptIV/ch51/schI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter I"
heading: "Claims"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/ptIV-ch51-schI"
sections_count: 16
---

# Subchapter I — Claims

Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits › Part IV — General Administrative Provisions › Chapter 51 — Claims, Effective Dates, and Payments

## Sections

- [§5100. Definitions](/usc/38/5100.md)
- [§5101. Claims and forms](/usc/38/5101.md)
- [§5102. Application forms furnished upon request; notice to claimants of incomplete applications](/usc/38/5102.md)
- [§5103. Notice to claimants of required information and evidence](/usc/38/5103.md)
- [§5103A. Duty to assist claimants](/usc/38/5103A.md)
- [§5104. Decisions and notices of decisions](/usc/38/5104.md)
- [§5104A. Binding nature of favorable findings](/usc/38/5104A.md)
- [§5104B. Higher-level review by the agency of original jurisdiction](/usc/38/5104B.md)
- [§5104C. Options following decision by agency of original jurisdiction](/usc/38/5104C.md)
- [§5105. Joint applications for social security and dependency and indemnity compensation](/usc/38/5105.md)
- [§5106. Furnishing of information by other agencies](/usc/38/5106.md)
- [§5107. Claimant responsibility; benefit of the doubt](/usc/38/5107.md)
- [§5108. Supplemental claims](/usc/38/5108.md)
- [§5109. Independent medical opinions](/usc/38/5109.md)
- [§5109A. Revision of decisions on grounds of clear and unmistakable error](/usc/38/5109A.md)
- [§5109B. Expedited treatment of returned and remanded claims](/usc/38/5109B.md)