---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1717"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1717"
heading: "Assignment of benefits; execution, levy, etc., against benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1717"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Compensation for Injury, Death, or Detention of Employees of Contractors with United States Outside United States"
  - "Subchapter II — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §1717. Assignment of benefits; execution, levy, etc., against benefits


The right of any person to any benefit under subchapter I shall not be transferable or assignable at law or in equity except to the United States, and none of the moneys paid or payable (except money paid hereunder as reimbursement for funeral expenses or as reimbursement with respect to payments of workmen’s compensation or in the nature of workmen’s compensation benefits), or rights existing under said subchapter, shall be subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process or to the operation of any bankruptcy or insolvency law.


## Source credit

(Dec. 2, 1942, ch. 668, title II, § 207, 56 Stat. 1035.)