38 USC § 5311 - Prohibition of certain benefit payments

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title: "38 USC § 5311 - Prohibition of certain benefit payments"
title_number: 38
title_name: "VETERANS’ BENEFITS"
section_number: "5311"
section_name: "Prohibition of certain benefit payments"
chapter_number: 53
chapter_name: "SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO BENEFITS"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 91–376, § 8(b), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 790, § 3111; renumbered § 5311, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238.)"
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# § 5311. Prohibition of certain benefit payments

Public Law 87–674

There shall be no payment of dependency and indemnity compensation, death compensation, or death pension which, because of a widow’s relationship with another man before enactment of , would not have been payable by the Veterans’ Administration under the standard for determining remarriage applied by that agency before said enactment.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 91–376, § 8(b), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 790, § 3111; renumbered § 5311, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

, referred to in text, is , , , which was enacted , and amended sections 101, 103, and 3010 [now 5110] of this title to provide for the restoration of certain widows and children to the benefit rolls upon annulment of their marriages or remarriages.

### Amendments

1991— renumbered  as this section.