38 U.S.C. § 5311

Prohibition of certain benefit payments

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 Public Law 87–674 , would not have been payable by the Veterans’ Administration under the standard for determining remarriage applied by that agency before said enactment.

(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 .)