38 CFR § 8.31 - Total disability for twenty years or more.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t38/s8.31"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "38 CFR § 8.31 - Total disability for twenty years or more."
title_number: 38
title_name: "Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief"
section_number: "8.31"
section_name: "Total disability for twenty years or more."
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS"
part_number: "8"
part_name: "NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "38 U.S.C. 501, 1901-1929, 1981-1988, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "8"
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# 8.31 Total disability for twenty years or more.
Where the Disability Insurance Claims activity has made a finding of total disability for insurance purposes and it is found that such disability remained continuously in effect for 20 or more years, the finding will not be discontinued thereafter, except upon a showing that such a determination was based on fraud. The 20-year period will be computed from the date the continuous total disability commenced, as determined by the Disability Insurance Claims activity.
[27 FR 11893, Dec. 1, 1962. Redesignated at 61 FR 29290, June 10, 1996. Redesignated at 65 FR 7437, Feb. 15, 2000, and further redesignated at 67 FR 54739, Aug. 26, 2002]