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3.216 Mandatory disclosure of social security numbers.

3.217 Submission of statements or information affecting entitlement to benefits.

DEPENDENCY, INCOME AND ESTATE REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO PROGRAMS IN EFFECT PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1979 3.250 Dependency of parents; compensation. 3.251 Income of parents; dependency and indemnity compensation.

3.252 Annual income; pension: Mexican border period and later war periods. 3.253-3.255 [Reserved]

3.256 Eligibility reporting requirements.

3.257 Children; no surviving spouse entitled. 3.258-3.259 [Reserved]

3.260 Computation of income.

3.261 Character of income; exclusions and

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3.359 Determination of service connection for former members of the Armed Forces of Czechoslovakia or Poland. 3.360 Service-connected health-care eligibility of certain persons administratively discharged under other than honorable condition.

3.361 Benefits under 38 U.S.C. 1151(a) for additional disability or death due to hospital care, medical or surgical treatment, examination, training and rehabilitation services, or compensated work therapy program. 3.362 Offsets under 38 U.S.C. 1151(b) of benefits awarded under 38 U.S.C. 1151(a). 3.363 Bar to benefits under 38 U.S.C. 1151.

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3.655 Failure to report for Department of Veterans Affairs examination.

3.656 Disappearance of veteran.

3.657 Surviving spouse becomes entitled, or entitlement terminates.

3.658 Offsets; dependency and indemnity compensation.

3.659 Two parents in same parental line. 3.660 Dependency, income and estate. 3.661 Eligibility Verification Reports. 3.662-3.664 [Reserved]

3.665 Incarcerated beneficiaries and fugitive

felons-compensation.

3.666 Incarcerated beneficiaries and fugitive

felons-pension.

3.667 School attendance.

3.668 [Reserved]

3.669 Forfeiture.

CONCURRENT BENEFITS AND ELECTIONS

3.700 General.

3.701

Elections of pension or compensation. 3.702 Dependency and indemnity compensa

tion.

3.703 Two parents in same parental line. 3.704 Elections within class of dependents. 3.705-3.706 [Reserved]

3.707 Dependents' educational assistance. Federal Employees' Compensation. Civil service annuitants.

APPORTIONMENTS

3.451 Special apportionments.

3.452 Situations when benefits may be apportioned.

3.708

3.710

3.453 Veterans compensation or service pen

3.711

sion or retirement pay.

3.458 Veteran's benefits not apportionable. 3.459 Death compensation.

3.454 Veterans disability pension.

3.460 Death pension.

3.461 Dependency and indemnity compensa

tion.

Improved pension elections.

3.712 Improved pension elections; surviving spouses of Spanish-American War vet

erans.

3.713 Effective dates of improved pension elections.

3.714 Improved pension elections-public assistance beneficiaries.

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3.801 Special acts. 3.802 Medal of Honor.

3.803 Naval pension.

3.804 Special allowance under 38 U.S.C. 1312. 3.805 Loan guaranty for surviving spouses; certification.

3.806 Death gratuity; certification.

3.807 Dependents' educational assistance; certification.

3.808 Automobiles or other conveyances; certification.

3.809 Specially adapted housing under 38 U.S.C. 2101(a).

3.809a Special home adaptation grants under 38 U.S.C. 2101(b).

3.810 Clothing allowance.

3.811 Minimum income annuity and gratuitous annuity.

3.812 Special allowance payable under section 156 of Pub. L. 97-377.

3.813 Interim benefits for disability or death due to chloracne or porphyria cutanea tarda.

3.814 Monetary allowance under 38 U.S.C. chapter 18 for an individual suffering from spina bifida whose biological father or mother is or was a Vietnam veteran. 3.815 Monetary allowance under 38 U.S.C.

chapter 18 for an individual with disability from covered birth defects whose biological mother is or was a Vietnam veteran; identification of covered birth defects.

3.816 Awards under the Nehmer Court Orders for disability or death caused by a condition presumptively associated with herbicide exposure.

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3.900

General.

3.901

Fraud.

3.902

3.903

Treasonable acts.

Subversive activities.

3.904 Effect of forfeiture after veteran' death.

3.905 Declaration of forfeiture or remission of forfeiture.

PROTECTION

3.950 Helpless children; Spanish-America and prior wars.

3.951 Preservation of disability ratings. 3.952

Protected ratings.

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3.1603 Authority for burial of certain u claimed bodies.

3.1604 Payments from non-Department Veterans Affairs sources.

3.1605 Death while traveling under prior a thorization or while hospitalized by th Department of Veterans Affairs.

3.1606 Transportation items.

3.1607 Cost of flags.

3.1608

3.1609

3.1610

Nonallowable expenses.

Forfeiture.

Burial in national cemeteries; buri of unclaimed bodies.

3.1611 Official Department of Veterans A fairs representation at funeral. 3.1612 Monetary allowance in lieu of a Go ernment-furnished headstone or marker

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(a) Armed Forces means the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, including their Reserve components.

(b) Reserve component means the Army, Naval, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard Reserves and the National and Air National Guard of the United States.

(c) Reserves means members of a Reserve component of one of the Armed Forces.

(d) Veteran means a person who served in the active military, naval, or air service and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.

(1) For compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation the term veteran includes a person who died in active service and whose death was not due to willful misconduct.

(2) For death pension the term veteran includes a person who died in active service under conditions which preclude payment of service-connected death benefits, provided such person had completed at least 2 years honorable military, naval or air service, as

certified by the Secretary concerned. (See §§3.3(b)(3)(i) and 3.3(b)(4)(i))

(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501)

(e) Veteran of any war means any veteran who served in the active military, naval or air service during a period of war as set forth in §3.2.

(f) Period of war means the periods described in §3.2.

(g) Secretary concerned means:

(1) The Secretary of the Army, with respect to matters concerning the Army;

(2) The Secretary of the Navy, with respect to matters concerning the Navy or the Marine Corps;

(3) The Secretary of the Air Force, with respect to matters concerning the Air Force;

(4) The Secretary of Transportation, with respect to matters concerning the Coast Guard;

(5) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, with respect to matters concerning the Public Health Service; and

(6) The Secretary of Commerce, with respect to matters concerning the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Environmental Science Services Administration, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

(h) Discharge or release includes retirement from the active military, naval, or air service.

(i) State means each of the several States, Territories and possessions of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

(j) Marriage means a marriage valid under the law of the place where the parties resided at the time of marriage, or the law of the place where the parties resided when the right to benefits accrued.

(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 103(c))

(k) Service-connected means, with respect to disability or death, that such disability was incurred or aggravated, or that the death resulted from a disability incurred or aggravated, in line of duty in the active military, naval, or air service.

(1) Nonservice-connected means, with respect to disability or death, that

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