---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1654"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1654"
heading: "Persons excluded from benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1654"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Compensation for Disability or Death to Persons Employed at Military, Air, and Naval Bases Outside United States"
---

# §1654. Persons excluded from benefits


This chapter shall not apply in respect to the injury or death of (1) an employee subject to the provisions of subchapter I of [chapter 81](/usc/5/chptIII/sptG/ch81.md) of title 5; (2) an employee engaged in agriculture, domestic service, or any employment that is casual and not in the usual course of the trade, business, or profession of the employer; and (3) a master or member of a crew of any vessel.


## Source credit

(Aug. 16, 1941, ch. 357, § 4, 55 Stat. 623.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5” substituted for reference to act Sept. 7, 1916 (39 Stat. 742), known as the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.