38 USC § 1914 - Statutory total disabilities

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identifier: "/us/usc/t38/s1914"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "38 USC § 1914 - Statutory total disabilities"
title_number: 38
title_name: "VETERANS’ BENEFITS"
section_number: "1914"
section_name: "Statutory total disabilities"
chapter_number: 19
chapter_name: "INSURANCE"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "GENERAL BENEFITS"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1151, § 714; renumbered § 1914, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)"
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# § 1914. Statutory total disabilities

Without prejudice to any other cause of disability, the permanent loss of the use of both feet, of both hands, or of both eyes, or of one foot and one hand, or of one foot and one eye, or of one hand and one eye, or the total loss of hearing of both ears, or the organic loss of speech, shall be deemed total disability for insurance purposes.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1151, § 714; renumbered § 1914, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991— renumbered  as this section.