---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5058"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5058"
heading: "Eligibility for other benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5058"
units:
  - "Chapter 66 — Domestic Volunteer Services"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administration and Coordination"
---

# §5058. Eligibility for other benefits


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no payment for supportive services or reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses made to persons serving pursuant to subchapter II of this chapter shall be subject to any tax or charge or be treated as wages or compensation for the purposes of unemployment, temporary disability, retirement, public assistance, workers’ compensation, or similar benefit payments, or minimum wage laws. This section shall become effective with respect to all payments made after October 1, 1973.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–113, title IV, § 418, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 413; Pub. L. 96–143, § 18(a)(2), Dec. 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 1083; Pub. L. 98–288, § 24, May 21, 1984, 98 Stat. 196.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–288 inserted “workers’ compensation,” after “public assistance,”.

1979—Pub. L. 96–143 substituted “subchapter II of this chapter” for “subchapters II and III of this chapter”.