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[CITE: 38USC1987]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
                         SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL
 
Sec. 1987. Penalties

    (a) Any person who shall knowingly make or cause to be made, or 
conspire, combine, aid, or assist in, agree to, arrange for, or in 
anywise procure the making or presentation of a false or fraudulent 
affidavit, declaration, certificate, statement, voucher, or paper, or 
writing purporting to be such, concerning any application for insurance 
or reinstatement thereof, waiver of premiums or claim for benefits under 
National Service Life Insurance, United States Government life 
insurance, or yearly renewable term insurance for any person, shall be 
fined not more than $1,000, or be imprisoned for not more than one year, 
or both.
    (b) Whoever in any claim for National Service Life Insurance, United 
States Government life insurance, or yearly renewable term insurance 
makes any sworn statement of a material fact knowing it to be false, 
shall be guilty of perjury and shall be fined not more than $5,000, or 
be imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1167, Sec. 787; Pub. L. 99-576, 
title VII, Sec. 701(47), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3294; renumbered 
Sec. 1987, Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 787 of this title as this 
section.
    1986--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-576 substituted ``any'' for ``himself 
or any other''.
