Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits
Part IV · Chapter 51 — Claims, Effective Dates, and Payments
§ 5126. Benefits not to be denied based on lack of mailing address
Statutory text
Benefits under laws administered by the Secretary may not be denied a claimant on the basis that the claimant does not have a mailing address.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000
Pub. L. 106–475 § 3(b) · 114 Stat. 2096
Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 5126
(Added Pub. L. 106–475, § 3(b), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2098.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 106–475, § 3(b), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2098.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Reenactment of Rule for Claimant’s Lacking a Mailing Address.— Chapter 51 of such title is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 5126. Benefits not to be denied based on lack of mailing address “Benefits under laws administered by the Secretary may not be denied a claimant on the basis that the claimant does not have a mailing address.”.
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Credits
(Added Pub. L. 106–475, § 3(b), , 114 Stat. 2098.)