38 USC § 1137 - Wartime presumptions for certain veterans

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title: "38 USC § 1137 - Wartime presumptions for certain veterans"
title_number: 38
title_name: "VETERANS’ BENEFITS"
section_number: "1137"
section_name: "Wartime presumptions for certain veterans"
chapter_number: 11
chapter_name: "COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY OR DEATH"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "PEACETIME DISABILITY COMPENSATION"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "GENERAL BENEFITS"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 89–358, § 7(a), Mar. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 27, § 337; amended Pub. L. 93–295, title II, § 205, May 31, 1974, 88 Stat. 183; renumbered § 1137 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 926(a)(13), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3830.)"
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# § 1137. Wartime presumptions for certain veterans

December 31, 1946

For the purposes of this subchapter and subchapter V of this chapter and notwithstanding the provisions of sections 1132 and 1133 of this subchapter, the provisions of sections 1111, 1112, and 1113 of this chapter shall be applicable in the case of any veteran who served in the active military, naval, air, or space service after .

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 89–358, § 7(a), Mar. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 27, § 337; amended Pub. L. 93–295, title II, § 205, May 31, 1974, 88 Stat. 183; renumbered § 1137 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 926(a)(13), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3830.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021— substituted “air, or space service” for “or air service”.

1991—, renumbered  as this section.

, substituted “1132 and 1133” for “332 and 333” and “1111, 1112, and 1113” for “311, 312, and 313”.

1974— substituted “” for “”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1974 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , see , set out as a note under .