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[CITE: 38USC1921]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE
 
Sec. 1921. Extra hazard costs

    (a) The United States shall bear the excess mortality cost and the 
cost of waiver of premiums on account of total disability traceable to 
the extra hazard of military or naval service, as such hazard may be 
determined by the Secretary.
    (b) Whenever benefits under insurance become payable because of the 
death of the insured as the result of disease or injury traceable to the 
extra hazard of military or naval service, as such hazard may be 
determined by the Secretary, the liability for payment of such benefits 
shall be borne by the United States in an amount which, when added to 
the reserve of the policy at the time of death of the insured will equal 
the then value of such benefits under such policy. Where life 
contingencies are involved in the calculation of the value of such 
benefits of insurance heretofore or hereafter matured, the calculation 
of such liability or liabilities shall be based upon such mortality 
table or tables as the Secretary may prescribe with interest at the rate 
of 3 per centum per annum. The Secretary shall transfer from time to 
time from the National Service Life Insurance appropriation to the 
National Service Life Insurance Fund such sums as may be necessary to 
carry out the provisions of this section.
    (c) Whenever the premiums under insurance are waived because of the 
total disability of the insured as the result of disease or injury 
traceable to the extra hazard of military or naval service, as such 
hazard may be determined by the Secretary, the premiums so waived shall 
be paid by the United States and the Secretary shall transfer from time 
to time an amount equal to the amount of such premiums from the National 
Service Life Insurance appropriation to the National Service Life 
Insurance Fund.
    (d) Whenever benefits under the total disability income provision 
become, or have become, payable because of total disability of the 
insured as a result of disease or injury traceable to the extra hazard 
of the military or naval service, as such hazard may be determined by 
the Secretary, the liability shall be borne by the United States, and 
the Secretary shall transfer from the National Service Life Insurance 
appropriation to the National Service Life Insurance Fund from time to 
time any amounts which become, or have become, payable to the insured on 
account of such total disability, and to transfer from the National 
Service Life Insurance Fund to the National Service Life Insurance 
appropriation the amount of the reserve held on account of the total 
disability benefit. When a person receiving such payments on account of 
total disability recovers from such disability, and is then entitled to 
continue protection under the total disability income provision, the 
Secretary shall transfer to the National Service Life Insurance Fund a 
sum sufficient to set up the then required reserve on such total 
disability benefit.
    (e) Any disability for which a waiver was required as a condition to 
tendering a person a commission under Public Law 816, Seventy-seventh 
Congress, shall be deemed to be a disability resulting from an injury or 
disease traceable to the extra hazard of military or naval service for 
the purpose of applying this section.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1154, Sec. 721; renumbered 
Sec. 1921 and amended Pub. L. 102-83, Secs. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), Aug. 
6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404-406.)

                       References in Text

    Public Law 816, Seventy-seventh Congress, referred to in subsec. 
(e), is act Dec. 18, 1942, ch. 768, Secs. 1, 2, 56 Stat. 1066. Section 1 
of that Act enacted section 853c-5 of former Title 34, Navy, and was 
repealed by act July 9, 1952, ch. 608, pt. VIII, Sec. 803, 66 Stat. 505. 
Section 2 of that Act enacted section 853c-6 of former Title 34, and was 
omitted from the Code in the general revision and reenactment of Title 
10, Armed Forces, by act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 1.


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 721 of this title as this 
section and substituted ``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' wherever 
appearing in subsecs. (a) to (d).
