38 U.S.C. § 1142
Rates of peacetime death compensation
For the purposes of section 1141 of this title , the monthly rates of death compensation payable shall be those specified in section 1122 of this title .
( Pub. L. 85–857 , Sept. 2, 1958 , 72 Stat. 1124 , § 342; Pub. L. 93–295, title II, § 206(a) , May 31, 1974 , 88 Stat. 183 ; renumbered § 1142 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a) , (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991 , 105 Stat. 406 .)