---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7385f"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7385f"
heading: "Claims not assignable or transferable; choice of remedies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7385f"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program"
  - "Part C — Treatment, Coordination, and Forfeiture of Compensation and Benefits"
---

# §7385f. Claims not assignable or transferable; choice of remedies

- (a) **Claims not assignable or transferable—** No claim cognizable under this subchapter shall be assignable or transferable.
- (b) **Choice of remedies—** No individual may receive more than one payment of compensation under part B.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXVI, § 3647], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–511; Pub. L. 108–375, div. C, title XXXI, § 3162(f), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2186.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–375 substituted “this subchapter” for “part B”.