---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 292m"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "292m"
heading: "Repayment by Secretary of loans of deceased or disabled borrowers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/292m"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter V — Health Professions Education"
  - "Part A — Student Loans"
  - "Subpart i — insured health education assistance loans to graduate students"
---

# §292m. Repayment by Secretary of loans of deceased or disabled borrowers


If a borrower who has received a loan dies or becomes permanently and totally disabled (as determined in accordance with [regulations](/usc/42/201.md?p=d) of the [Secretary](/usc/42/292o.md?p=6)), the [Secretary](/usc/42/292o.md?p=6) shall discharge the borrower’s liability on the loan by repaying the amount owed on the loan from the account established under [section 292i of this title](/usc/42/292i.md).


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 714, as added Pub. L. 102–408, title I, § 102, Oct. 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 2008.)