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[CITE: 38USC1957]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
         SUBCHAPTER II--UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE
 
Sec. 1957. Extra hazard costs

    (a) The United States shall bear the excess mortality and disability 
cost resulting from the hazards of war on United States Government life 
insurance.
    (b) Whenever benefits under United States Government life insurance 
become, or have become, payable because of total permanent disability of 
the insured or because of the death 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. In such cases the 
Secretary shall transfer from the military and naval insurance 
appropriation to the United States Government Life Insurance Fund a sum 
which, together with the reserve of the policy at the time of maturity 
by total permanent disability or death, will equal the then value of 
such benefits. When a person receiving total permanent disability 
benefits under a United States Government life insurance policy recovers 
from such disability and is then entitled to continue a reduced amount 
of insurance, the Secretary shall transfer to the military and naval 
insurance appropriation all of the loss reserve to the credit of such 
policy claim except a sum sufficient to set up the then required reserve 
on the reduced amount of the insurance that may be continued, which sum 
shall be retained in the United States Government Life Insurance Fund 
for the purpose of such reserve.
    (c) Whenever benefits under the total disability 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 military and naval insurance 
appropriation to the United States Government 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 shall transfer from the 
United States Government Life Insurance Fund to the military and naval 
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 continued protection under the total disability provision, 
the Secretary shall transfer to the United States Government Life 
Insurance Fund a sum sufficient to set up the then required reserve on 
such total disability benefit.
    (d) 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. 1162, Sec. 757; renumbered 
Sec. 1957 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. 
(d), 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 757 of this title as this 
section and substituted ``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' wherever 
appearing in subsecs. (b) and (c).
