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The current regulatory structure is materially different from the former “general” and “special” apportionment framework. A final rule published January 9, 2026, effective February 9, 2026, replaced the operative text in the selected range. The current compilation contains substantive §§ 3.450–3.455; §§ 3.456–3.461 are reserved. The former nonsupport-based general route and former hardship-based special route, including the familiar 20% and 50% language, must not be presented as the current rules for new claims received on or after February 9, 2026. The new text separately preserves apportionments already being paid on that date, subject to continuation of the circumstances supporting entitlement. C002, C010–C011, C028–C031. Apportionments+1
The change did not eliminate every statutory hardship condition. Current 38 U.S.C. § 5503(a)(2) expressly requires an affirmative showing of hardship for the specified institutional-care apportionment to a spouse. Current § 3.452(b)(2)(ii) retains the corresponding improved-pension route but does not repeat those hardship words. Both texts are preserved below; this report does not treat the regulatory omission as repeal of the statutory condition. C021–C022. uscode.house.gov+1
Several other text and currentness qualifications matter: a later surviving-spouse amendment differs from older regulatory wording; current statutes describe a broader correctional-facility category than the displayed incarceration regulations; the contested-claim statute says notice is “issued,” while the Board regulation still uses mailing language; and some cross-references and the displayed § 3.556(e) text have not been cleanly aligned with the 2026 amendments. These are identified individually rather than silently harmonized. C032–C034, C052, C066, C072, C081–C082.
All access dates in this register are October 27, 2026 PDT. “Current” below means the displayed compilation at its stated currency boundary, subject to the explicit later-history limitations.
| Source ID; issuer and title | Complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact reading and reliance bounds | Version, legal status, effective/application information, and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-S001 — Congress/OLRC, 38 U.S.C. § 5307, Apportionment of benefits | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5307/ | Complete operative body, subsections (a)–(c), source credit and displayed relevant notes. | Federal statute; display through P.L. 119-134, Oct. 20, 2026. Complete selected section, not complete Title 38 or amendment/judicial chain. uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-S002 — VA/OFR/GPO, 38 CFR Part 3, Adjudication; selected apportionment group and indispensable clauses | https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-3/subpart-A/subject-group-ECFRefca2e78000b27d https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-3 | Complete §§ 3.450–3.455 and reserved §§ 3.456–3.461. Additional exact clause reads are itemized in § 2.3 below. | eCFR through Oct. 26, 2026. Current regulations as compiled; core application date Feb. 9, 2026. Whole Part 3 was not read or analyzed. Compilation mismatches remain visible. Apportionments |
| R076-P1-S003 — Congress/OLRC, 38 U.S.C. § 501, Rules and regulations | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s501/ | Complete (a)–(d); reliance on rulemaking authority and consistency with administered laws. | Current statutory compilation through Oct. 20, 2026. Does not establish an individual decision-maker’s actual delegation or a particular entitlement. uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-S004 — Congress/OLRC, selected general definitions and relationship provisions | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s101/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s102/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s103/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s104/ | § 101: complete material clauses (1)–(5), (13)–(17), (20)–(24), (28), (31), (34); other definitions not a complete service-eligibility analysis. §§ 102(a)–(c), 103(a)–(e), 104(a)–(b) read completely. | Current statutory compilation through Oct. 20, 2026. Chapter-specific exceptions and incorporated service/insurance regimes remain bounded. § 103’s complete remarriage regime is not operationalized here. uscode.house.gov+3 |
| R076-P1-S009 — VA, public marriage-benefits information | https://www.va.gov/opa/marriage/ | Substantive introductory marriage-recognition text and pertinent FAQs; reliance limited to VA’s statement about recognition of same-sex marriages and evidence requirements. | Official generic agency instruction, not enacted law or an independently examined judicial holding. Publisher/issuance date not established. No actual marriage or eligibility determination. va.gov |
| R076-P1-S010 — Congress/OLRC, 38 U.S.C. § 5502, Payments to and supervision of fiduciaries | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5502/ | (a)–(d) read; reliance limited to (a)(1) and the material pending-fiduciary/apportionment language in (d). | Current statutory compilation through Oct. 20, 2026. Fiduciary administration, fees, death distribution, and an actual appointment are not determined. uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-S011 — Congress/OLRC, 38 U.S.C. § 5503, Hospitalized veterans and estates of incompetent institutionalized veterans | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5503/ | Complete operative (a)–(d) read; substantive reliance here on (a)–(b). Selected amendment notes read. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. The separate aid-and-attendance and Medicaid provisions were encountered but are not a complete additional program investigation. A later attempted reopening failed; the successful complete body remains separately recorded. uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-S012 — Congress/OLRC, pension entitlement and estate provisions | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s1521/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s1522/ | § 1521 operative (a)–(j) and § 1522(a)–(b) read. Reliance limited to the distinctions incorporated by §§ 3.452, 3.551 and 5503. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. Printed statutory base rates are not quoted as current adjusted benefit rates. Full pension eligibility, income computation and current rate adjustment remain held. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R076-P1-S013 — Congress/OLRC, incarceration and fugitive-status provisions | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s1505/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5313/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5313B/ | Complete operative § 1505(a)–(c), § 5313(a)–(e), § 5313B(a)–(d); reliance on benefit, recipient, facility, timing and apportionment predicates. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. No criminal-law, actual custody, fugitive-status or law-enforcement-record investigation. Data-disclosure operations in § 5313B(d) are not implemented. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R076-P1-S014 — Congress/OLRC, forfeiture and subversive-activity provisions | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s6103/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s6104/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s6105/ | Complete operative bodies and pertinent notes; read with §§ 3.900–3.904. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. The enumerated criminal cross-references were preserved, not expanded into a criminal-law dossier. No allegation is treated as a finding or conviction. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R076-P1-S015 — Congress/OLRC, contested claims and decision notices | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s7105A/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5104/ | Complete § 7105A(a)–(b), § 5104(a)–(d). Reliance on the special contested period, other-party response, notice contents and electronic-notice election. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. No actual issuance, mailing, receipt, election or appeal determined. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R076-P1-S016 — VA/OFR/GPO, 38 CFR Part 20, Board of Veterans’ Appeals: Rules of Practice | https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-20 | Complete material clauses: §§ 20.3, 20.4, 20.105, 20.110–20.111, 20.203; §§ 20.400–20.407; §§ 20.500–20.505; § 20.704(c); § 20.711. Selected adjacent appeal/evidence provisions were read, not the whole Part. | eCFR through Oct. 26, 2026. Modern and legacy provisions kept separate. Statutory “issued” versus regulatory “mailing” discrepancy retained. ecfr.gov+3 |
| R076-P1-S017 — VA/OFR/GPO, 38 CFR Part 19, Board of Veterans’ Appeals: Legacy Appeals Regulations | https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-19 | Complete §§ 19.1–19.2 and 19.100–19.102. | eCFR through Oct. 23, 2026. Legacy classification and contested notices only; not all legacy appeal procedures. ecfr.gov+1 |
| Source ID; issuer/instrument | Complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact read bounds; pagination | Publication, effective/application status, and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-S005 — VA, “Apportionments,” final rule, 91 FR 899–907 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-09/html/2026-00237.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-09/pdf/2026-00237.pdf https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/09/2026-00237/apportionments | Dates, selected introductory preamble, and all amendatory instructions 1–17, including the complete substituted core bodies. Operative amendments printed pp. 905–907; corresponding PDF indices 6–8. PDF package pp. 899–907, indices 0–8; substantive reliance is on the official HTML amendatory body, not a claim of whole-PDF visual review. | Published Jan. 9, 2026; effective Feb. 9, 2026. Final rule, not proposal. FederalRegister.gov and GovInfo formats are the same rule, not separate corroboration. govinfo.gov+1 |
| R076-P1-S006 — VA, Jan. 22, 2026 final rule containing Part 3 nomenclature amendment, 91 FR 2709–2714 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-22/html/2026-01188.htm | Dates and actual amendatory instruction 8: Part 3 replacement of “death pension” with “survivors pension.” HTML printed pagination; no PDF-index claim. | Published Jan. 22, 2026; effective Feb. 23, 2026. Other substantive survivor-policy changes in that rule are outside this component. govinfo.gov+1 |
| R076-P1-S007 — GPO, historical July 1, 2025 CFR apportionment texts | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title38-vol1/pdf/CFR-2025-title38-vol1-sec3-450.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title38-vol1/pdf/CFR-2025-title38-vol1-sec3-451.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title38-vol1/pdf/CFR-2025-title38-vol1-sec3-458.pdf | Complete former § 3.450(a)–(g), pp. 326–327, indices 0–1 in first file; complete former § 3.451, p. 327, index 0 in its file and index 1 in the first file; complete former § 3.458, pp. 328–329, indices 0–1 in its file. Parsed text only. | Official historical annual edition, not current new-claim law. Formats overlapping on p. 327 are one historical text. No assertion that this annual edition alone authenticates every intervening amendment. govinfo.gov+2 |
| R076-P1-S008 — Congress, P.L. 118-210, § 303 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ210/html/PLAW-118publ210.htm | Complete § 303 amendatory body, printed 138 Stat. 2791–2792; enactment header. Selected section only. | Enacted Jan. 2, 2025. Rewrites § 101(3). No separate effective/application clause appears in § 303 itself; no whole-Act or full judicial-chain claim. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S018 — Congress, P.L. 115-55, Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ55/html/PLAW-115publ55.htm | Complete § 2(r), printed 131 Stat. 1112; § 2(x)(1)–(7) and pertinent rule of construction. Selected amendments/application provisions, not whole Act. | Enacted Aug. 23, 2017. Conditional effective framework separately checked against the 2019 official effective-date notice. govinfo.gov+2 |
| R076-P1-S019 — VA, “VA Claims and Appeals Modernization,” final rule, 84 FR 138 et seq. | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-01-18/html/2018-28350.htm | Dates; instruction 56 establishing §§ 19.1–19.2; selected actual Part 20 instructions 99–113, including complete §§ 20.400–20.407 and legacy redesignations, printed approximately pp. 181–184. | Published Jan. 18, 2019; stated effective Feb. 19, 2019. Not the whole lengthy preamble or complete rulemaking file. govinfo.gov+2 |
| R076-P1-S020 — VA, correction to 2019 modernization final rule | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/html/2019-01840.htm | Dates and relevant corrections, including Board authority/manual status and correction of the reserved-section designation. | Published Feb. 15, 2019; effective Feb. 19, 2019. Selected correction clauses, not an independent substantive source for unrelated appeal rules. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S021 — VA, appeals-modernization effective-date notice | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-07/pdf/2019-01432.pdf | Complete VA notice segment on printed p. 2449, PDF index 0; the page also contains unrelated material not relied on. Parsed text only. | Published Feb. 7, 2019; records Jan. 18, 2019 certification and Feb. 19, 2019 effective date. HTML alternative failed. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S022 — Congress, P.L. 117-168, § 807 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ168/html/PLAW-117publ168.htm | Complete § 807(a)(1)–(8), (b), printed 136 Stat. 1805–1806. | Enacted Aug. 10, 2022. Actual amendment changes § 7105A(a) from mailing to issuance and adds electronic-notice provisions; Board limitation preserved. No separate delayed effective clause in § 807 was found. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S023 — Congress, P.L. 109-461, § 1002 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ461/html/PLAW-109publ461.htm | Complete § 1002(a)–(g), printed 120 Stat. 3464–3465; reliance on facility-language amendments to §§ 1505 and 5313. | Enacted Dec. 22, 2006. No separate effective clause within § 1002. Other amended programs not analyzed. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S024 — Congress, P.L. 107-103, §§ 505–506 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-107publ103/html/PLAW-107publ103.htm | Complete §§ 505(a)–(b), 506(a)–(d), printed 115 Stat. 995–997. | Enacted Dec. 27, 2001. § 506 has an express 90-day/month-start application trigger. § 505’s interagency-agreement statement is not an individual claim deadline. govinfo.gov+1 |
| R076-P1-S025 — Congress, 1972 veterans-benefits enactment, §§ 505, 601 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-86/pdf/STATUTE-86-Pg1074.pdf | Complete § 505 and relevant complete § 601(a)–(b), printed p. 1099, PDF index 25. Selected pages of 26-page file; parsed text only. | Enacted Oct. 24, 1972; § 601(b) makes § 505 effective 90 days after enactment. No date calculation performed. Supports the chapter 34 addition, not present entitlement under that chapter. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S026 — Congress/GPO, 1989 enactment containing § 111 pension-care amendments; access-limited reading | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-103/pdf/STATUTE-103-Pg2062.pdf https://www.congress.gov/101/statute/STATUTE-103/STATUTE-103-Pg2062.pdf | Initial parsed header and in-document § 111 extraction were available, printed pp. 2064–2065, indices 2–3. Repeated targeted open attempts timed out; Congress alternative was restricted. | Historical enactment, Dec. 18, 1989. Full direct amendatory-body authentication remains access-limited. Current $90/third-month language is independently readable in current § 5503 and § 3.551(e); no unseen PDF or exhaustive history claim. |
| R076-P1-S027 — Congress, 1978 pension enactment, §§ 306–307, 401 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg2497.pdf | Complete § 306(a)–(e), printed pp. 2508–2510, indices 11–13; § 307, p. 2510/index 13; § 401, p. 2511/index 14. Selected portion of 15-page file, parsed text. | Enacted Nov. 4, 1978; § 401 effective Jan. 1, 1979. Historical program preservation/election provisions; old dollar tables are not quoted as current rates. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S028 — VA, M21-1 public apportionment-process endpoint; failed body access | https://www.knowva.ebenefits.va.gov/system/templates/selfservice/va_ssnew/help/customer/locale/en-US/portal/554400000001018/content/554400000207953/M21-1-Part-VI-Subpart-iv-Chapter-2-Section-A-Apportionment-Process | Returned a JavaScript-disabled message, not the manual body. | Not substantive evidence. Search-preview dates were not treated as publication dates or verified instructions. No gate bypass. |
| R076-P1-S029 — OLRC § 1114 rate-base endpoint; failed narrow opening | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s1114/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/t38/s1114/ | Current endpoint inaccessible; generic endpoint returned no substantive body. | No § 1114(a) dollar amount authenticated in this pass. The references to that rate in readable §§ 5313 and 3.665 are preserved without supplying a current monetary value. |
These are subdivisions of S002, S016 or S017, not additional independent sources.
| Reading unit | Complete material clauses actually read | Reliance boundary |
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| R-D1 — Basic regulatory definitions | § 3.1(d), (h)–(l), (o)–(r), (u)–(w), (z), as relevant; § 3.23(d)(1). | Generic service, marriage, claim/receipt, program-vintage, nursing-home and dependent distinctions. No service or current rate eligibility finding. |
| R-D2 — Relationship definitions | §§ 3.50, 3.52, 3.53, 3.57, 3.58, 3.59, 3.60, complete. | § 3.57 includes its adoption, school, custody and foreign-adoption subclauses. Only part of adjacent § 3.55 was encountered; the complete remarriage-exception regime is held. |
| R-D3 — Dependency and capacity | §§ 3.250, 3.353, 3.356, complete. | Parent-dependency categories, incompetency standard/process, and permanent incapacity for self-support. No financial or medical adjudication. |
| R-I1 — Institutional care | § 3.551(a)–(i), § 3.556(a)–(f), complete; § 3.501(i) as displayed for comparison. | Reliance principally on the clauses incorporated by § 3.452. Separate aid-and-attendance, Medicaid and old withheld-estate systems are not fully resolved. |
| R-X1 — Incarceration | §§ 3.665 and 3.666, complete, including all lettered subdivisions. | Benefit-specific restrictions, allocation categories, dates, notices, resumption and exceptions. |
| R-F1 — Forfeiture | §§ 3.900–3.904, complete. | Material restrictions incorporated by § 3.453. § 3.905 was not completely read and is not used to assert a complete forfeiture procedure. |
| R-P1 — Initiation, notices, effective dates and review selection | § 3.31; § 3.103(a)–(f); §§ 3.109–3.110; § 3.155(b); § 3.160(a); § 3.217(b); § 3.400(e); § 3.500 introductory text and (d); § 3.2400(a)–(d); § 3.2500(g); § 3.2601(a). | Complete named clauses, not all surrounding claim-development, reduction, review or evidentiary regimes. |
| R-P2 — Modern/legacy Board procedure | S016 bounds listed above, especially complete §§ 20.400–20.407, 20.500–20.505 and 20.711. | No actual appeal, filing destination, docket, hearing, receipt or timeliness determination. |
| R-P3 — Legacy agency procedure | S017 §§ 19.1–19.2 and 19.100–19.102, complete. | Classification and simultaneous-contest notices only. |
| Claim ID | Supported proposition | Conditions, qualifications and limits | Exact evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-C001 | The source openings in this pass occurred October 27, 2026 PDT. | Actual access is distinct from compilation, publication and effective dates. | Session clock; S001–S029 access record. |
| R076-P1-C002 | The selected current range has substantive §§ 3.450–3.455 and reserved §§ 3.456–3.461. | § 3.450(a) itself refers to “3.450 through 3.459”; that wording does not create substantive text in reserved sections. | S002, complete apportionment group; S005 instructions 6–13. Apportionments |
| R076-P1-C003 | The current statutory and regulatory displays have the currency boundaries stated in the source register. | Those displays do not establish exhaustive later enactments, corrections or judicial treatment through access. Related formats are not independent corroboration. | S001–S004, S015–S017 display headers; S005–S006 published amendments. |
| R076-P1-C004 | Statutes, regulations, an official public instruction and an inaccessible manual have different evidentiary status. | The failed manual is not evidence. The Board’s § 20.105 distinguishes binding law/regulations/precedential opinions from manuals and similar administrative issuances. | S016 § 20.105; S009; S028; S020 relevant correction. |
| R076-P1-C005 | § 5307(a)(1) authorizes apportionment of all or any part of compensation, pension or emergency officers’ retirement pay when the veteran receives the specified government-provided institutional care. | Potential recipients are spouse, children or dependent parents; exercise is as prescribed by the Secretary. Basic benefit entitlement is not created by this clause. | S001 § 5307(a)(1). |
| R076-P1-C006 | § 5307(a)(2) separately addresses a veteran not living with the spouse, or children not in the veteran’s custody. | It is statutory authority to apportion under prescribed rules, not a self-executing award based on separation or nonsupport alone. | S001 § 5307(a)(2). |
| R076-P1-C007 | § 5307(b) addresses pension, compensation or DIC otherwise payable to a surviving spouse when a deceased veteran’s children are not in that spouse’s custody. | The current implementing routes must also be examined; no actual custody or payment finding follows. | S001 § 5307(b). |
| R076-P1-C008 | § 5307(c) still refers to chapter 31 subsistence allowances and the dependent portion of chapter 34 educational assistance. | The 2026 rule removed and reserved § 21.330. Neither fact establishes current individual entitlement under either chapter or repeal of § 5307(c). | S001 § 5307(c); S005 instruction 17; S025 § 505. |
| R076-P1-C009 | § 501 authorizes regulations necessary or appropriate to administer VA laws, including proof, forms and adjudication matters. | Regulations must be consistent with administered statutes. Authority and discretion are not an individual entitlement or proof of an actual delegated decision. | S003 § 501(a)–(d). |
| R076-P1-C010 | The new apportionment provisions apply to claims VA receives on or after February 9, 2026. | Receipt/application status is indispensable. This does not by itself decide a claim received before that date but not yet being paid. | S002 § 3.450(a); S005 dates and substituted § 3.450. |
| R076-P1-C011 | Apportionments being paid as of February 9, 2026 continue until the circumstances supporting entitlement no longer exist. | The examples include divorce and death of the primary beneficiary or apportionee. Continuation is conditional, not permanent or immune from later adjustment. | S002 § 3.450(b). |
| R076-P1-C012 | An apportionment claim must be submitted on a form prescribed by the Secretary. | A request, intent, complete claim, adjudication and payment are distinct stages. No form was completed or transmitted. | S002 § 3.450(c), §§ 3.155(b), 3.160(a). |
| R076-P1-C013 | Current § 3.451(a)(1)(i) permits all or part of pension or disability compensation to specified dependents where the veteran is incompetent and receives qualifying U.S. or political-subdivision hospital, nursing-home or domiciliary care. | Spouse/children may receive pension or compensation; dependent parents are included for disability compensation but not pension. Both incapacity and care predicates matter. | S002 § 3.451(a)(1)(i). |
| R076-P1-C014 | Current § 3.451(a)(1)(ii) supplies the incarceration route by incorporating §§ 3.665 or 3.666. | Incarceration as an ordinary label is insufficient; benefit type, conviction, period, status and recipient restrictions remain cumulative. | S002 § 3.451(a)(1)(ii); complete §§ 3.665–3.666. |
| R076-P1-C015 | The surviving-spouse route in § 3.451(a)(2) requires children not living with the spouse because the spouse is incarcerated under § 3.665 or § 3.666. | No apportionment is payable under that clause to a child who did not reside with the surviving spouse before incarceration. | S002 § 3.451(a)(2). |
| R076-P1-C016 | Entering active duty alone does not create or change an apportionment; a claim for a child already on active duty when VA receives it is barred by the stated clause. | An existing spouse apportionment that includes a child is not changed merely because the child enters active duty. These are distinct timing situations. | S002 § 3.451(b). |
| R076-P1-C017 | Amounts payable for children under §§ 3.454 and 3.455 are divided equally among the children. | The denominator is the number of children entitled under the applicable route, not all relatives or all dependents in any program. | S002 § 3.451(c). |
| R076-P1-C018 | § 3.452(a) allows apportionment, upon an application and qualifying government-provided care, pending appointment of a guardian or other fiduciary. | The provision is not itself a fiduciary appointment or a grant of representation authority. | S002 § 3.452 introductory language and (a); S010 § 5502(d). |
| R076-P1-C019 | § 3.452(b)(1) separately addresses an incompetent veteran without a fiduciary receiving qualifying care. | Benefits may be apportioned for spouse/child; a dependent-parent apportionment is limited to disability compensation. No clinical label alone establishes VA incompetency. | S002 § 3.452(b)(1)(i)–(ii), § 3.353. |
| R076-P1-C020 | For a competent married veteran whose section 306 pension is reduced to $50 monthly under § 3.551, § 3.452(b)(2)(i) permits a spouse apportionment. | The amount generally is the difference between $50 and the total pension payable on Dec. 31, 1978. This is neither a percentage nor a universal present benefit rate. | S002 § 3.452(b)(2)(i); S027 § 306. |
| R076-P1-C021 | For a competent married veteran receiving pension under § 1521(b), reduced to $90 monthly under § 3.551, § 3.452(b)(2)(ii) permits a spouse apportionment. | The amount generally is the difference between $90 and the hypothetical § 1521(c) rate, including § 1521(e) only if entitled. The hypothetical rate and entitlement are absent. | S002 § 3.452(b)(2)(ii); S012 § 1521(b), (c), (e). |
| R076-P1-C022 | § 5503(a)(2) expressly adds an affirmative showing of hardship for its spouse-apportionment authority. | It concerns a spouse of a veteran receiving the specified care whose pension is payable under § 1521(b). It authorizes all or part of the specified excess; it does not command an award. The omission of hardship wording from § 3.452(b)(2)(ii) does not justify omitting the statute. | S011 § 5503(a)(2); S002 § 3.452(b)(2)(ii). uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-C023 | § 3.453(a) prohibits spouse or child apportionment without the specified claim. | Spouse must file; a child’s claim may be filed by or for the child. This clause does not itself establish signature authority, completeness or entitlement. | S002 § 3.453(a), § 3.450(c). |
| R076-P1-C024 | § 3.453(b) bars apportionment to a dependent whom VA determines committed the listed mutiny, treason, sabotage or enemy-assistance conduct. | A generic accusation or status label is not the required VA determination. | S002 § 3.453(b). |
| R076-P1-C025 | § 3.453(c) imposes the stated post-September 1, 1959 restriction where the primary beneficiary forfeited benefits for fraud/treason or was convicted of subversive activity. | The incorporated §§ 3.900–3.903 and §§ 6103–6105 distinguish actors, grounds, historical awards and other survivor rights. | S002 § 3.453(c) and note; S014. |
| R076-P1-C026 | § 3.454 uses mandatory wording for disability-pension apportionment to spouse/children and survivors-pension apportionment to children. | These short clauses must be read with the applicable route, application and restriction provisions; they do not establish that every pension recipient’s relatives receive an award. They do not erase the separately stated competent-veteran route in § 3.452(b)(2). | S002 §§ 3.450–3.454. |
| R076-P1-C027 | § 3.455(a) requires apportionment of a surviving spouse’s DIC for the stated child/incarceration situation and refers the amount to § 3.665. | It says child under 18, and disallows apportionment for a child over age 18 unless permanently incapable of self-support under § 3.57. School attendance alone is not that exception. Exact boundary/application facts are not supplied. | S002 § 3.455(a)–(b); S004 §§ 101(4)(A), 104. |
| Claim ID | Supported proposition | Conditions, qualifications and limits | Exact evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-C028 | Former § 3.450 included the separated-spouse/noncustodial-child route where the veteran was not reasonably discharging support responsibility. | That former route did not contain the separate special-hardship test. It is historical text, not the current § 3.451 new-claim test. Former § 3.450 also contained support, custody, equal-division and relationship-development qualifications. | S007 former § 3.450(a)–(g); S005 replacement instructions. |
| R076-P1-C029 | Former § 3.451 allowed special apportionment where hardship was shown, on the individual facts, without undue hardship to other persons in interest. | It considered benefit amounts, other resources/income, and special needs, and was subject to former § 3.458(b)–(c). Those were legal categories, not a financial assessment performed here. | S007 former § 3.451, complete. |
| R076-P1-C030 | Former § 3.451 said ordinarily more than 50% of the veteran’s benefits would cause undue hardship and less than 20% would not provide a reasonable amount. | Denominator: the veteran’s benefits. Strict “more than”/“less than,” qualified by “ordinarily”; neither a guaranteed 20% minimum nor absolute 50% maximum. Historical, not the current new-claim rule. | S007 former § 3.451; S005. |
| R076-P1-C031 | Former § 3.458 contained additional restrictions, including relationship/conduct and adopted-out-child provisions, with qualifications. | The 2026 rule removed and reserved §§ 3.458–3.461. An old restriction cannot be silently carried into a new claim merely because another regulation retains an obsolete cross-reference. | S007 former § 3.458; S005 instruction 13; S002 reserved range. |
| R076-P1-C032 | Current § 101(3) defines surviving spouse by spouse-at-death, continuous-cohabitation qualifications and no-remarriage language, subject to its chapter exception and other statutory qualifications. | P.L. 118-210 § 303 removed the earlier opposite-sex and holding-out formulation from this definition. The full effect of other remarriage provisions is not determined by § 101(3) alone. | S004 § 101(3); S008 § 303; S004 § 103(d). |
| R076-P1-C033 | Displayed § 3.50 retains older opposite-sex and holding-out wording; § 101(31) also retains opposite-sex spouse wording, while VA’s public instruction says it recognizes same-sex marriages. | These are identified source differences. No judicial invalidation, complete implementation history or actual marital entitlement is asserted. | S002 § 3.50; S004 § 101(31); S009. |
| R076-P1-C034 | Marriage validity, deemed-valid marriage and continuous cohabitation have distinct statutory/regulatory predicates. | § 103(c)/§ 3.1(j) use residence-based governing law. § 103(a)/§ 3.52 require the stated lack of knowledge of an impediment, duration-or-child condition, cohabitation and absence of a qualifying competing legal-spouse claim. § 3.53 addresses separation and temporary absences. Full remarriage restoration remains held. | S004 § 103(a)–(e); S002 §§ 3.1(j), 3.52–3.53. |
| R076-P1-C035 | The basic child definition requires unmarried status and one of three age/capacity/education alternatives. | Under 18; permanently incapable of self-support before 18; or approved education after 18 and before 23, until completion. Chapter 19 and § 8502(b) exceptions are expressly preserved. Marriage-related statutory exceptions are not erased. | S004 § 101(4)(A), § 103(e); S002 § 3.57(a). |
| R076-P1-C036 | Legal relationship is an additional child predicate, not a substitute for age/capacity/education. | Statutory categories include legitimate, legally adopted, qualifying household stepchild, and illegitimate child with the specified paternal acknowledgment, support/filiation judgment or satisfactory-evidence alternatives. Regulatory adoption/stepchild age rules have their own exceptions. | S004 § 101(4)(A); S002 § 3.57(a)–(c). |
| R076-P1-C037 | Post-death adoption has specific household, timing and outside-support limitations. | The statute says adoption by the surviving spouse before Aug. 26, 1961 or within two years after death, with its regular-contribution exclusion. § 3.57(c) uses a different historical date formulation and a major-support formulation. Their complete historical reconciliation is unresolved. | S004 § 101(4)(A), post-death adoption sentence; S002 § 3.57(c). |
| R076-P1-C038 | Interlocutory adoption and authorized placement are recognized only while the specified custody and unrescinded/unterminated arrangement continue. | A child incapable of self-support before 18, in the household at 18, may qualify under the special later-adoption provision regardless of age at adoption. No actual placement or adoption is inferred. | S004 § 101(4)(A), final sentences; S002 § 3.57(a)(3), (c). |
| R076-P1-C039 | Foreign-adoption recognition has cumulative age, support, custody and residence conditions, plus separate death-related alternatives. | Adoption before 18; at least half of annual support from the veteran; natural-parent custody exclusion with spouse exception; residence requirement with stated school/institution/divorce exceptions. At death, the specified prior dependent allowance or at-least-one-year satisfaction alternative applies. Geographic and specialized-service cross-references remain bounded. | S004 § 101(4)(B), § 101(20); S002 § 3.57(e). |
| R076-P1-C040 | § 3.57(d)’s custody definition is expressly for improved-pension §§ 3.23–3.24. | It addresses legal control/care, residence presumptions, support obligations, divestment, stepparent joint custody, continuity after 18 and successor custody. It is not a universal domestic-relations custody rule. | S002 § 3.57(d), complete. |
| R076-P1-C041 | Adoption out of the veteran’s family does not categorically eliminate the child’s own VA-benefit status. | § 3.58 distinguishes those benefits from additional dependent compensation under § 1115. Its obsolete § 3.458 cross-reference does not restore a removed rule. | S002 §§ 3.57(a)(4), 3.58; S005 instruction 13. |
| R076-P1-C042 | Permanent incapacity for self-support under § 3.356 is evaluated at the relevant age and on the stated evidentiary factors. | Earning support, continuity of cause, temporary/casual work, daily activities, reasons for lack of employment and sympathetic employment are distinct considerations. A diagnosis, unemployment or a disability label alone is not the finding. | S002 § 3.356(a)–(b), complete. |
| R076-P1-C043 | Parent status includes natural/adoptive parents and the specified sustained parental relationship before service. | Statute requires at least one year for the latter relationship; regulation adds commencement before the veteran’s 21st birthday and recognition of no more than one father and one mother, with the last qualifying relationship rule. | S004 § 101(5); S002 § 3.59. |
| R076-P1-C044 | Parent dependency is a separate financial/legal category under § 102 and § 3.250. | Nonforeign conclusive monthly-income thresholds are $400, $660 and an additional $185 per qualifying family member as specified. Above-threshold and foreign cases require factual evaluation; reasonable maintenance, estate availability, family responsibility and remarried-household conditions matter. These are not universal benefit rates or a completed means test. | S004 § 102; S002 § 3.250(a)–(d), complete. |
| R076-P1-C045 | Compensation, DIC and pension are separately defined payment categories. | Compensation and DIC definitions distinguish service-connected disability/death and the statutory 1956/1957 death-date division/election; pension concerns the specified service, age, nonservice-connected disability or death basis. No basic entitlement follows merely from the category name. | S004 § 101(13)–(17). |
| R076-P1-C046 | Veteran, active service and qualifying care are legal categories with incorporated definitions. | § 101(2) includes active military/naval/air/space service and other-than-dishonorable release; the complete service regime remains held. Nursing-home and hospitalization definitions are not every residence or care arrangement. | S004 § 101(2), (21)–(24), (28); S002 § 3.1(d), (z), § 3.551(a). |
| R076-P1-C047 | § 3.353 defines incompetency by injury/disease-related lack of mental capacity to contract or manage affairs, including unrestricted disbursement of funds. | It assigns decision roles, requires the stated evidentiary basis, favors competency when reasonable doubt arises, and provides notice/hearing qualifications. No diagnosis or institutional admission automatically satisfies it. | S002 § 3.353(a)–(e), complete. |
| R076-P1-C048 | Payment through a fiduciary and apportionment to dependents are distinct statutory mechanisms. | § 5502(a)(1) concerns payment in the beneficiary’s interest; § 5502(d) permits specified temporary arrangements or discretionary apportionment while fiduciary matters are pending. Neither establishes negotiation authority or private debt release. | S010 § 5502(a)(1), (d); S002 § 3.452. |
| Claim ID | Supported proposition | Conditions, qualifications and limits | Exact evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-C049 | § 5503(a)(1) limits the specified VA-furnished domiciliary/nursing-home pension to $90 monthly after the third full calendar month following the admission month. | It has no-spouse/no-child conditions, a six-month readmission rule, rehabilitation exceptions, and extension findings. Subsection (a)(2) extends the framework to the stated married § 1521(b) situation. Subsection (b) preserves the Hansen’s-disease exception. | S011 § 5503(a)(1)–(2), (b). |
| R076-P1-C050 | § 3.551(c) states a $50 section 306 limit after the second full calendar month, with its six-month readmission condition. | It covers the stated no-dependent-rate categories. Displayed § 3.501(i)(2)(ii) instead uses a third-month hospital/nursing-home formulation. That timing discrepancy is not resolved here. | S002 § 3.551(c), § 3.501(i)(2). |
| R076-P1-C051 | Institutional timing and dependency rules contain material exceptions. | § 3.551(e) distinguishes hospital care, transfers, six-month intervals and the § 1522(b) child-estate exception; (f) has a limited 96-hour/60-day/90-day computation rule only for (c); (g) addresses proof of dependents; (h) requires specified rehabilitation certification. | S002 § 3.551(e)–(h); S012 § 1522(b). |
| R076-P1-C052 | Some displayed cross-references no longer point to the former substantive provision. | §§ 3.551(c)(3), (e)(3) still point to § 3.454(b), now survivors pension; §§ 3.57–3.58 retain references to now-reserved § 3.458. These were not automatically rewritten in this report. | S002 cited clauses; S005 instructions 10, 13. |
| R076-P1-C053 | The hypothetical § 1521(c)/(e) amount in § 3.452 is not a demonstrated current payable amount. | Underlying service, disability, marital/support, income, estate and adjusted-rate predicates remain absent. “Living with” for § 1521 may include separate residence unless estranged; it is not a universal cohabitation definition. | S012 § 1521, § 1522; S002 §§ 3.23(d)(1), 3.60. |
| R076-P1-C054 | Compensation/DIC incarceration restrictions depend on the specified felony conviction, facility, duration and application categories. | § 5313 and § 3.665 use more than 60 days and the 61st-day framework; § 3.665’s felony definition includes punishment exceeding one year unless the jurisdiction classifies the offense as a misdemeanor. No actual criminal status is inferred. | S013 § 5313; S002 § 3.665(a)–(c). |
| R076-P1-C055 | The incarceration framework contains historical applicability categories, including the later extension to specified pre-1980 incarcerations continuing at the 2001 enactment. | The precise October 1980 categories and P.L. 107-103 § 506’s 90-day/month-start application rule are retained in the measurement register. They are not replaced by a generic “all incarceration” rule. | S013 § 5313(d); S002 § 3.665(c); S024 § 506. |
| R076-P1-C056 | The retained-payment rule distinguishes disability evaluations of at least 20% from those below 20%, and specified survivor beneficiaries. | The reference amount is the § 1114(a) rate or one-half of that rate. It is not 20% or 50% of an actual award. The current dollar base was not authenticated because S029 failed. | S013 § 5313(a); S002 § 3.665(d); S029 failure. |
| R076-P1-C057 | Current § 3.665(e) permits apportionment of the compensation or DIC not paid because of the specified incarceration. | Compensation recipients: spouse, children in equal shares, or dependent parents in equal shares. DIC recipient configurations differ for an incarcerated surviving spouse/child. No universal division across all categories is stated. | S002 § 3.665(e)(1)–(2); S005 instruction 15. |
| R076-P1-C058 | An incarcerated felony recipient is independently restricted, and release includes specified work-release/halfway-house situations. | The recipient prohibition is not supplied with a separate 60-day waiting period in § 3.665(g). Applicable facility wording must also be checked against the later statute. | S013 § 5313(a)–(b); S002 § 3.665(b), (g)–(h). |
| R076-P1-C059 | Retroactive apportionment under § 3.665(f) requires both timely claim/intent and timely necessary evidence. | Claim/intent within one year after the specified notice to the incarcerated person; evidence within one year of VA’s request; subject to overlapping payments. Otherwise the new claim/intent receipt boundary applies. | S002 § 3.665(f), § 3.155(b). |
| R076-P1-C060 | Release-related resumption and discontinuance have separate notice and prior-payment rules. | Without an apportionment, notice within one year preserves the release-date rule; otherwise receipt controls. With an apportionment, last-payment and interim-difference provisions apply. No amount or date is computed. | S002 § 3.665(h)–(i). |
| R076-P1-C061 | Increases, reversal of conviction and continued parent apportionment have express qualifications. | § 3.665(j) distinguishes statutory increases and evaluation changes; (m) restores withheld benefits less apportionments if conviction is overturned; (i)(2) does not continue a parent apportionment after release unless the specified incompetency route applies. | S002 § 3.665(i)(2), (j)–(m). |
| R076-P1-C062 | Pension incarceration rules cover conviction of a felony or misdemeanor, unlike the compensation/DIC felony route. | § 1505 and § 3.666 have distinct wording for the imprisonment trigger; the regulation says the 61st day of imprisonment following conviction. No actual counting event is established. | S013 § 1505(a); S002 § 3.666 introductory text. |
| R076-P1-C063 | Pension payments to family under § 3.666(a) require continued underlying eligibility apart from incarceration and the specified family-income condition. | The rate is the lesser of the hypothetical survivors-pension rate and the pre-imprisonment veteran rate. Survivor-family configurations and income limits are separately addressed in (b). | S002 § 3.666(a)(1)–(3), (b)(1)–(4); S013 § 1505(b)–(c). |
| R076-P1-C064 | Pension commencement/resumption provisions use their own claim, evidence, release-notice and overlapping-payment qualifications. | Disability-pension and survivors-pension routes do not have identical triggers. § 3.666(d)’s compensation-alternative provision is not an automatic family award or an action recommendation. | S002 § 3.666(a)(4), (b)(3), (c)–(d). |
| R076-P1-C065 | Fugitive-felon restrictions are separately defined and can affect both the veteran and a dependent. | Fleeing to avoid specified prosecution/custody and violating qualifying felony probation/parole are separate alternatives; the high-misdemeanor qualification and defined dependent categories matter. No status finding is made. | S013 § 5313B(a)–(c); S002 §§ 3.665(n), 3.666(e); S024 § 505. |
| R076-P1-C066 | Current §§ 1505 and 5313 include “other penal institution or correctional facility” language added in 2006; the displayed regulations retain narrower facility wording. | The later statute cannot be reduced to the older regulatory list. Application to any actual facility remains absent. | S013; S023 § 1002(a), (f); S002 §§ 3.665–3.666. |
| R076-P1-C067 | Fraud forfeiture, historical dependent apportionment and independent survivor benefits are distinct questions. | § 6103 contains the post-September 1, 1959 bar and expressly distinguishes certain survivor entitlement from forfeiture by the veteran. It does not make every relative disqualified for every benefit. | S014 § 6103(a)–(d); S002 §§ 3.900–3.901, 3.904. |
| R076-P1-C068 | Treason forfeiture and conviction-based subversive-activity restrictions have different predicates and consequences. | The selected statutes contain historical qualifications and, for § 6105, a pardon-related provision. The complete criminal and forfeiture-adjudication regimes remain held. | S014 §§ 6104–6105; S002 §§ 3.902–3.904. |
| Claim ID | Supported proposition | Conditions, qualifications and limits | Exact evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-C069 | Current § 3.400(e)(1) generally starts apportionment on the first day of the month after VA receives the claim. | Exceptions: pending primary-beneficiary claim; claimant not yet established as dependent and claim within one year of the primary award; incarceration under §§ 3.665–3.666. The first two use the later of primary-award effective date and apportionment entitlement. | S002 § 3.400(e)(1)–(2); S005 instruction 5. |
| R076-P1-C070 | Apportionment adjustments are excluded from § 3.31’s ordinary next-calendar-month payment-deferral provision. | This avoids automatically adding another month to § 3.400(e). It does not promise processing or deposit on any particular day. | S002 § 3.31(c)(3); S005 instruction 2. |
| R076-P1-C071 | § 3.500(d) generally uses last payment when the reason for apportionment ceases. | For pension apportioned under § 3.551(c), it specifies the day before release unless overpayment would result, then last payment. Other controlling provisions and actual facts remain necessary. | S002 § 3.500 introductory text, (d)(1)–(2). |
| R076-P1-C072 | The displayed § 3.556(e) retains an older continuation/adjustment sentence alongside the new termination wording. | S005 instruction 14 directed removal/revision of sentences. The text/compilation discrepancy is preserved; no continuation permission is inferred from the leftover wording. Temporary absence and release categories also have separate conditions. | S002 § 3.556(a)–(f); S005 instruction 14. ecfr.gov+1 |
| R076-P1-C073 | An intent to file under § 3.155(b) is distinct from a complete prescribed claim. | The one-year completion rule, recognized methods, authorized-actor requirements, one-concurrent-intent rule and non-reset qualification apply. This report creates neither an intent nor a claim. | S002 § 3.155(b)(1)–(6), complete. |
| R076-P1-C074 | § 3.160(a) prescribes completeness requirements; § 3.217(b) imposes conditions before VA acts on oral information. | Required information/signature varies with the prescribed claim. Oral receipt requires authorized staff, identity verification, explanation of use and documentation. No identifying information was requested or entered here. | S002 § 3.160(a)(1)–(6), § 3.217(b)(1)–(2). |
| R076-P1-C075 | General evidence-completion, extension and counting rules are not automatic substitutes for special contested-appeal rules. | § 3.109 has one-year evidence provisions and good-cause extension conditions; § 3.110 excludes the first day, includes the last and addresses nonworkdays, while expressly pointing to separate appeal rules. | S002 §§ 3.109–3.110, complete. |
| R076-P1-C076 | § 3.103 provides decision-notice, hearing and representation protections, with exceptions and stage-specific limits. | Its advance-reduction period has express exceptions; not every apportionment event automatically receives an additional ordinary period. Decision notices identify issues, evidence, law, findings, unmet elements and applicable review options. | S002 § 3.103(a)–(f), complete. |
| R076-P1-C077 | § 5104 specifies decision-notice contents and permits electronic notice on the claimant’s election, revocable at any time. | P.L. 117-168 § 807(b) limits application to Board decisions as stated there. No actual election, issuance or receipt is established. | S015 § 5104; S022 § 807. |
| R076-P1-C078 | A simultaneously contested claim is defined functionally by an allowance causing another claimant’s disallowance or a reduced payment to another claimant. | A generic dispute label is insufficient; the benefit consequences and procedural classification matter. | S016 § 20.3(l). |
| R076-P1-C079 | Modern and legacy review systems have separate applicability rules. | Initial-decision notice on/after Feb. 19, 2019 or a valid election can invoke modernization; older non-elected matters remain legacy. The complete facts and election predicates are absent. | S002 § 3.2400; S017 §§ 19.1–19.2; S018–S021. |
| R076-P1-C080 | For a simultaneously contested claim under § 3.2500(g), the stated administrative review route is a Board appeal within the special period. | Ordinary higher-level-review/supplemental-review options must not be transposed; § 3.2601(a) excludes contested decisions from higher-level review. | S002 §§ 3.2500(g), 3.2601(a). |
| R076-P1-C081 | Current § 7105A(a) requires the contested notice of disagreement within 60 days from issuance of notice; subsection (b) gives other parties 30 days for a brief or argument after communication of its substance. | Prompt notice to interested parties and last-known-address provisions are part of the text. No calendar is computed. | S015 § 7105A(a)–(b); S022 § 807(a)(7). |
| R076-P1-C082 | § 20.402 still describes 60 days from mailing and presumes the letter date is the mailing date; § 3.2500(g) uses issuance. | The 2022 statutory amendment is authenticated. The complete implementation/counting reconciliation, particularly for electronic issuance, remains unresolved. | S016 § 20.402; S002 § 3.2500(g); S015; S022. |
| R076-P1-C083 | Modern contested rules require notice of the adverse action, appeal/hearing/representation rights, and communication of the notice-of-disagreement substance and selected review type. | Other parties receive the stated response opportunity; § 20.405 governs shared review selection; last-address notice and the special treatment of favorable findings are separately stated. | S016 §§ 20.400–20.407, complete. |
| R076-P1-C084 | Legacy contested procedure has its own notice-of-disagreement, substantive-appeal, other-party response and extension rules. | The 60-day, 30-day and good-cause provisions have different triggers. A supplemental statement does not automatically extend the substantive-appeal period. | S017 §§ 19.100–19.102; S016 §§ 20.500–20.505. |
| R076-P1-C085 | Board filing computation includes a postmark rule, a limited presumed-postmark rule and first/last-day conventions. | Good-cause extension clauses have their own conditions; the legacy contested substantive-appeal extension must be requested before expiration. No assumed extension, holiday calculation or actual timeliness conclusion is supplied. | S016 §§ 20.110–20.111, 20.203(c), 20.504. |
| R076-P1-C086 | If a hearing is scheduled in a simultaneous contest, other contesting claimants and representatives must receive notice and an opportunity to attend. | The sequence permits opening, other-party presentation and rebuttal; cross-examination is not allowed. | S016 § 20.711(a). |
| R076-P1-C087 | Contested hearing-date changes have special timing, consent, good-cause and service conditions. | The earlier-of deadline, all-party consent, fixed-date good-cause rule, ordinarily limited postponement, certified-mail proof and actual-receipt response period are distinct predicates. | S016 § 20.711(b)(1)–(3), incorporated § 20.704(c). |
| R076-P1-C088 | The 2026 amendment and later nomenclature change were read in actual amendatory form. | Jan. 9 amendments effective Feb. 9; Jan. 22 nomenclature amendment effective Feb. 23. Publication date is not the application trigger. | S005–S006. |
| R076-P1-C089 | The 2025 surviving-spouse change was verified in the enacted § 303 body. | It supports the specific definition change, not a complete marriage, remarriage or judicial-status determination. | S008; S004 § 101(3). |
| R076-P1-C090 | The 2017 conditional modernization framework was checked against the 2019 final rule, correction and official effective-date notice. | This authenticates the selected transition, not all appeals law or every intervening amendment. | S018–S021. |
| R076-P1-C091 | The 2022 notice amendment and 2006 facility amendments are later statutory changes material to reading older regulations. | Their actual amendatory sections were read; no broader statute-wide conclusion is drawn. | S022 § 807; S023 § 1002. |
| R076-P1-C092 | The 1972 and 1978 selected enactments authenticate the narrow education/pension-history points used here; the 1989 direct reopening remained limited. | No exhaustive historical chain or current adjusted-rate table is established. | S025–S027. |
| R076-P1-C093 | Failed endpoints and incomplete history leave specific propositions unresolved, rather than proving repeal or absence of authority. | This includes the current § 1114(a) dollar base, complete manual transition guidance and some historical alignment. | S026, S028–S029; failure log. |
| R076-P1-C094 | The unavailable manual cannot fill the pre-February 9, 2026 pending-but-unpaid transition issue. | The two explicit clauses in § 3.450 cover new receipts and awards already being paid; they do not, by themselves, complete every intermediate procedural situation. | S002 § 3.450(a)–(b); S028 failure. |
| R076-P1-C095 | This framework governs a VA payment mechanism, not a demonstrated private debt release, attachment exemption, support satisfaction or representation power. | Separate authorities and actual predicates would be needed for each downstream conclusion. This is a scope boundary, not an assertion of the contents of unexamined regimes. | S001; S002 core; S010; downstream table below. |
| R076-P1-C096 | No actual eligibility, hardship, capacity, allocation, effective date, payment, continuation or debt-relief outcome is established. | Every application fact remains absent; no component, parent, operational or publication acceptance is supplied. | Scope of the investigation and the conditions in C005–C095. |
| Comparison | Current supported distinction | What remains unresolved | Claims/sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic benefit entitlement / apportionment | A pension, compensation or DIC entitlement is antecedent to the question whether part of the payable benefit can be apportioned. | Program eligibility, rate, award and dependent status. | C005–C009, C045, C053; S001, S004, S012. |
| Statutory authorization / current regulatory route | § 5307 remains broadly worded; current §§ 3.451–3.452 identify narrower and specialized routes. | No self-executing award follows from separation, custody or a statutory power alone. | C005–C022; S001–S005. |
| Former general / former special apportionment | Former § 3.450 used nonsupport/custody conditions; former § 3.451 added hardship and competing-hardship analysis. | Those historical formulations are not the current new-claim tests. | C028–C031; S007, S005. |
| Current institutional / current incarceration route | Institutional provisions concern qualifying care, capacity/fiduciary status or specified competent-married pension reductions. Incarceration provisions depend on benefit-specific statutory and regulatory conditions. | Actual care, legal capacity, conviction, facility and period. | C013–C022, C049–C066. |
| Claimant hardship / hardship to another party | § 5503(a)(2) retains affirmative spouse hardship. Former § 3.451 addressed both claimant hardship and undue hardship to others. | No current universal competing-hardship formula is established from those texts. | C022, C029–C030. |
| Resources and necessities / protected funds | Former special-apportionment factors and current parent-dependency maintenance factors are evaluative categories. | They do not themselves establish exemption, ownership, garnishment immunity or protected-after-deposit status. | C029, C044, C095. |
| Separate residence / pension “living with” | § 5307 uses residence/custody language; § 3.60 has a limited pension definition that can treat spouses living apart as living together unless estranged. | No universal family-law or all-program cohabitation rule. | C006, C034, C040, C053. |
| Additional dependent amount / child’s own benefit / apportioned amount | These are not interchangeable; adopted-out-child treatment illustrates the distinction. | § 1115 eligibility and any actual award remain held. | C035–C041, C053. |
| Discretion / mandatory restriction | “May” appears in principal authorizations; “will not” states restrictions; §§ 3.454–3.455 use “will” within the applicable framework. | No isolated verb supplies missing predicates or an adjudication. | C013–C027. |
| Percentage benchmark / amount payable | Former 20%/50% statements were qualified historical benchmarks. Current institutional amounts use stated dollar bases/differences; incarceration uses withheld amounts and referenced retained-payment rates. | No universal percentage, current § 1114 dollar base or actual allocation. | C020–C022, C030, C056–C057. |
| Existing award / new claim | § 3.450 distinguishes an apportionment already being paid on Feb. 9, 2026 from a claim received on/after that date. | Pending-before-date but unpaid transition requires more verified authority. | C010–C011, C094. |
| Surviving-spouse award / independent survivor entitlement | Current child apportionment from a surviving spouse requires the stated incarceration/residence conditions; independent survivor entitlement is a different question. | Death benefits, remarriage exceptions and all other survivor eligibility remain held. | C007, C015, C027, C032–C034, C067. |
| Issue | Supported boundary | Precise next public-law authority if separately authorized | Present result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Request / claim / decision / payment | Prescribed claim and completeness rules do not constitute approval; an effective-date rule does not promise a deposit date. | §§ 3.450(c), 3.155(b), 3.160(a), 3.400(e), 3.31(c)(3). | C012, C069–C074; actual stages absent. |
| Ordinary / contested review | Functional contested classification invokes special rules; ordinary review periods/options cannot simply be copied. | § 7105A; §§ 3.2500(g), 20.3(l), 20.400–20.407 or legacy §§ 19.100–19.102, 20.500–20.505. | C078–C085. |
| Notice issuance / mailing / actual receipt | Different clauses use different events; the statute/regulation mismatch is explicit. | P.L. 117-168 § 807; §§ 5104, 7105A; current implementing notice/counting provisions. | C077, C081–C082; no deadline computed. |
| Apportionment / fiduciary payment | Separate mechanisms are expressly present in § 5502. | § 5502; 38 CFR Part 13, especially the referenced §§ 13.100, 13.110. | C018–C019, C047–C048; full fiduciary administration held. |
| Assignment or attachment / VA apportionment | Selected apportionment authority does not decide assignability or legal process against benefits. | 38 U.S.C. § 5301; any genuinely applicable federal support-process statute and its definitions. | Unexamined next component; no exemption or attachment conclusion. |
| Support enforcement / apportionment | A VA award is not proof that a support obligation or order is satisfied. | Relevant generic support jurisdiction and, only if necessary, 42 U.S.C. §§ 659, 662 and applicable implementing provisions. | No order, arrears, enforcement or jurisdiction examined. |
| Divorce property division / apportionment | No property-division result follows from the selected payment provisions. | Applicable public domestic-relations law and any indispensable federal benefits limitation. | Entire issue held. |
| Overpayment recovery or waiver / apportionment adjustment | Prior-payment and overpayment-avoidance clauses do not decide a recovery debt or waiver. | 38 U.S.C. §§ 5314, 5302; 38 CFR §§ 1.911, 1.962–1.965, only in a separately bounded inquiry. | No overpayment, offset or waiver finding. |
| Protected funds after deposit / evaluation of resources | Resource or maintenance factors do not establish account-level protection. | § 5301 and any actually applicable garnishment/account-protection regime. | No account, tracing or protection calculation. |
| Debt release, tax, credit or bankruptcy | None is settled by an apportionment category or percentage. | The precise separate statutory regime corresponding to the proposed legal question. | Excluded parent dimensions; no operational conclusion. |
This register records quantities and temporal boundaries actually relied on in this report. It does not reproduce every number incidentally appearing in adjacent material. Publication, compilation and access dates are already recorded in the source register; consequential effective/application dates are repeated here.
No measurement below is applied to an actual person or event. “Within” is retained where the source uses it; a holiday, postmark or service convention is not imported into a different substantive period.
| Measurement ID | Quantity; exact authority | Actor/object and base/unit | Trigger, boundary, qualifications and missing facts |
|---|---|---|---|
| M01 | Feb. 9, 2026 — § 3.450(a)–(b), S005 dates | Claim receipt; existing apportionment payment status | New provisions: received on or after date. Continuation: being paid as of date. Pending-but-unpaid transition unresolved. C010–C011, C094. |
| M02 | Feb. 23, 2026 — S006 dates/instruction 8 | Nomenclature amendment | Effective date of “survivors pension” terminology change; not an individual award date. C088. |
| M03 | Under 18; incapacity before 18; education after 18 and before 23 — § 101(4)(A), § 3.57(a) | Child’s age in years | Unmarried status and qualifying relationship cumulative; education ends on completion and not after attaining 23. Specialized exceptions preserved. C035–C038. |
| M04 | Under 18 / over age 18 — § 3.455(a) | Child receiving apportionment of surviving spouse’s DIC | Incarcerated-spouse conditions cumulative; over-18 exception is permanent incapacity, not school attendance alone. No exact-age application inferred. C027. |
| M05 | Before Aug. 26, 1961 or within 2 years after death — § 101(4)(A) | Post-death adoption | Household-at-death and outside-support conditions cumulative. Regulatory historical formulation differs; no calendar calculation. C037. |
| M06 | Two-year formulation tied to Aug. 25, 1959 or death, whichever later — § 3.57(c) | Regulatory post-death adoption condition | Preserved separately from M05; complete historical alignment unresolved. C037. |
| M07 | Adoption before 18; at least one-half annual support — § 101(4)(B)(i), § 3.57(e) | Foreign-adopted child; numerator veteran’s annual support contribution / denominator child’s annual support | At least half is inclusive; custody and residence conditions plus express exceptions cumulative. No support amount supplied. C039. |
| M08 | Within preceding 1 year / at least 1 year before death — § 101(4)(B)(ii) | Foreign-adoption death-status alternatives | Prior receipt/entitlement to dependent allowance is one alternative; sustained compliance is another. Not interchangeable. C039. |
| M09 | At least 1 year; before 21; no more than one father and one mother — § 101(5), § 3.59 | Parental relationship | Statutory relationship before service; regulatory commencement before 21; last qualifying relationship rule. C043. |
| M10 | $400, $660, plus $185 per qualifying additional family member per month — § 3.250(a)(1) | Parent-dependency income thresholds | Applies to specified nonforeign household configurations; income does not exceed threshold. Above-threshold and estate/family qualifications remain; not benefit amounts. C044. |
| M11 | At least 1 year immediately before death, or any duration with qualifying child — § 103(a), § 3.52 | Deemed-valid marriage duration alternative | Lack of knowledge, cohabitation and competing-spouse conditions also required. No actual relationship supplied. C034. |
| M12 | Before Jan. 1, 1957 / after Dec. 31, 1956; monthly payments — § 101(13)–(15) | Compensation/DIC category distinction | DIC includes the stated election alternative for an earlier service-connected death. No death date or entitlement found. C045. |
| M13 | More than 50%; less than 20% — former § 3.451 | Historical proportion of veteran’s benefits | Strict comparisons; ordinarily, not universal limits; other hardship factors and historical exceptions cumulative. C030. |
| M14 | $50 monthly; Dec. 31, 1978 reference amount — § 3.452(b)(2)(i) | Section 306 spouse apportionment comparison | Generally the difference from the specified pension reference; competent married veteran, qualifying care and reduction required. C020. |
| M15 | $90 monthly — § 3.452(b)(2)(ii), § 5503(a)(2) | Improved-pension retained amount compared with hypothetical § 1521(c)/(e) amount | “Generally” regulatory amount; statute permits all or part and requires affirmative hardship. No current hypothetical rate established. C021–C022. |
| M16 | Third full calendar month following admission month — § 5503(a)(1)(A)–(B), § 3.551(e)(1) | Specified domiciliary/nursing-home pension reduction | After end of third full calendar month; admission month is separately identified. No day conversion. Family/rate conditions and exceptions cumulative. C049, C051. |
| M17 | Within 6 months — § 5503(a)(1)(C), § 3.551(e)(2) | Readmission after qualifying reduced-care period | Reduction for period after readmission month under stated conditions; not a general six-month eligibility rule. C049–C051. |
| M18 | Up to 3 additional calendar months; further necessary calendar months — § 5503(a)(1)(D), § 3.551(h) | Rehabilitation-based delay | Prescribed rehabilitation purpose and official findings/certification required; regulatory admission condition after Oct. 16, 1981. No medical or program finding. C049, C051. |
| M19 | Second full calendar month versus third calendar month for hospital/nursing care — §§ 3.551(c)(1), 3.501(i)(2)(ii) | Section 306 reduction timing | Displayed provisions differ. No operational choice or computed reduction date. C050. |
| M20 | Within 6 months — § 3.551(c)(2) | Section 306 readmission | Applies after the specified prior reduced-care period; period after readmission month. C050. |
| M21 | 96 hours or less / over 96 hours; 60 total days = 2 calendar months; 90 total days = 3 — § 3.551(f) | Special hospitalization computation for paragraph (c) | Authorized absences over 96 hours excluded. This conversion is not generalized to improved pension, appeals or other periods. C051. |
| M22 | Hospital period not exceeding 6 months / exceeding 6 months — § 3.551(e)(4) | Transfers between qualifying care and hospital care | Different continuity/termination outcomes; direct hospital-to-care time and death-while-hospitalized qualifications preserved. C051. |
| M23 | Feb. 1, 1990 — § 3.551(e)(5) | Improved-pension hospital reduction boundary | Hospital reductions cease under the stated provision except § 3.552; separate aid-and-attendance regime held. C051, C092. |
| M24 | 60 days after request for old-law category; before reduction for section 306; within 1 year after request — § 3.551(g) | Proof of dependents | Different clauses, not one uniform period. Prima-facie showing and full-rate restoration qualifications matter. C051. |
| M25 | 30 days or more / less than 30 days; more than 6 months; absences exceeding 30 total days; 6 months after termination — § 3.556(a)–(d) | Temporary absence, need-based restoration and irregular-release withholding | Separate program/competency/request conditions. Less-than-30-day clause expressly includes departure day. Not a general apportionment extension. C072. |
| M26 | Day preceding release / date of last payment — § 3.500(d)(2), amended § 3.556(e) | Section 306 apportionment discontinuance | Last-payment alternative prevents overpayment; compilation mismatch in § 3.556(e) retained. C071–C072. |
| M27 | June 30, 1960; Dec. 31, 1978; Jan. 1, 1979 — § 3.1(u)–(w), S027 § 401 | Old-law, section 306 and improved-pension program vintages | Program definitions/application dates, not a current person’s enrollment or payment history. C020, C045, C092. |
| Measurement ID | Quantity; authority | Actor/object and base/unit | Trigger, boundary, qualifications and missing facts |
|---|---|---|---|
| M28 | More than 60 days; 61st-day framework — § 5313(a), § 3.665(a) | Compensation/DIC incarceration restriction | Qualifying conviction, facility and applicability categories required. Not a filing period or holiday-adjusted calendar model. C054. |
| M29 | Punishable by more than 1 year — § 3.665(b) | Regulatory felony definition | Jurisdictional misdemeanor exception preserved; statutory fugitive definition is separate. C054, C065. |
| M30 | 20% or more / less than 20%; one-half of § 1114(a) rate — § 5313(a), § 3.665(d) | Disability evaluation and retained payment | Evaluation percentage is not a share of total benefits. Current dollar reference unavailable. C056. |
| M31 | After Oct. 7, 1980; after Sept. 30, 1980 with Oct. 1 incarceration and later award conditions — § 3.665(c)(1)–(2) | Historical applicability | Distinct alternatives; do not merge offense date, incarceration date and award-approval date. C055. |
| M32 | Oct. 7, 1980 / Dec. 27, 2001; months beginning after the specified 90-day period — § 3.665(c)(3), S024 § 506 | Extension to specified older felony incarceration | Continuing incarceration and other stated conditions cumulative; no computed effective calendar date. C055. |
| M33 | Equal shares — §§ 3.451(c), 3.665(e) | Eligible children, or dependent parents within the stated allocation category | Denominator is the eligible recipients in the particular category; no actual count or cross-category allocation invented. C017, C057. |
| M34 | Within 1 year after notice; within 1 year of evidence request — § 3.665(f) | Claim/intent and necessary evidence | Both conditions required for stated retroactive boundary; overlapping payments also matter. C059. |
| M35 | Within 1 year following release — § 3.665(i)(1) | Notice of release where no apportionment existed | Timely notice supports release-date resumption; otherwise notice receipt date. Different rules where apportionment existed. C060. |
| M36 | 10% increased to at least 20%; already at least 20% — § 3.665(j) | Nonstatutory compensation increase during incarceration | Different retained-payment treatment; historical approval/effective-date qualifications retained. C061. |
| M37 | 61st day of imprisonment following conviction — § 3.666 introductory text | Pension following felony or misdemeanor conviction | Statutory § 1505 wording separately preserved; no actual conviction/imprisonment date or count. C062. |
| M38 | Lesser of two rates — § 3.666(a)(3) | Hypothetical survivors-pension rate versus pre-imprisonment veteran pension rate | Both must be legally established on a consistent payment-period basis. No rates supplied or computation performed. C063. |
| M39 | Day after discontinuance; separate one-year claim/evidence periods — § 3.666(a)(4), (b)(3) | Pension-family payment commencement | Disability-pension and survivors-pension clauses differ; overlapping payments and income evidence matter. C064. |
| M40 | One year after release; last-payment adjustment — § 3.666(c) | Pension resumption | Release notice, continuing entitlement and any existing apportionment determine route; no automatic payment finding. C064. |
| M41 | After Sept. 1, 1959 / historical pre-Sept. 2 awards — § 3.453(c), §§ 6103–6105, §§ 3.900–3.904 | Forfeiture/subversive restrictions | Actor, ground, historical authorization and independent survivor rights differ. C025, C067–C068. |
| M42 | First day of month after receipt — § 3.400(e)(1) | General apportionment effective date | Subject to all three exception categories; not date of actual processing or deposit. C069. |
| M43 | Within 1 year of primary-beneficiary award; later of two dates — § 3.400(e)(2)(i)–(ii) | Pending award/unestablished-dependent exceptions | Text says award, not an invented notice trigger. Entitlement date and primary-award effective date remain absent. C069. |
| M44 | No additional ordinary next-month deferral for listed adjustment — § 3.31(c)(3) | Apportionment adjustment | Exclusion from the general rule, not a guaranteed payment schedule. C070. |
| Measurement ID | Quantity; authority | Actor/object and unit | Trigger, qualifications, counting and missing facts |
|---|---|---|---|
| M45 | Within 1 year; one concurrent intent per benefit — § 3.155(b) | Intent-to-file completion and concurrency | Complete prescribed claim after qualifying intent; authorized method/actor and non-reset conditions. No intent or claim created. C073. |
| M46 | 1 year after notification/request — § 3.109(a) | Missing application/substantiation evidence | Distinct completeness/authenticity clauses; additional enlarged proofs not automatically included. C075. |
| M47 | 60-day advance period; 30-day restoration-response provision — § 3.103(b) | Certain adverse actions | Express exceptions in (b)(3), and special (b)(4) conditions, prevent treating these as universal contested-claim periods. C076. |
| M48 | Feb. 19, 2019; qualifying election provisions — §§ 3.2400, 19.2; S021 | Modern versus legacy classification | Initial-decision notice and valid election status matter. Regulatory early-election date Nov. 1, 2017 is a program transition reference, not current automatic eligibility. C079–C080. |
| M49 | 60 days from issuance — § 7105A(a), § 3.2500(g) | Contested notice of disagreement | Special period; current statute uses issuance. Actual notice/election/delivery facts absent. C081–C082. |
| M50 | 60 days from mailing; letter-date presumption — § 20.402 | Displayed Board contested rule | Preserved separately from M49; implementation alignment unresolved. C082. |
| M51 | 30 days after communication/furnishing — § 7105A(b), § 20.404 | Other-party brief/argument and review-type response | Not the initial appeal period; letter-date presumption appears in regulation. C081, C083. |
| M52 | 90 days after the applicable Board notice — § 20.405 | Additional evidence when the specified contested review option applies | Shared review-selection conditions must be met; not every contested matter automatically receives this period. C083. |
| M53 | Legacy 60-day NOD; 30-day substantive appeal; 30-day other-party response — §§ 20.501–20.503 | Different legacy procedural acts | Distinct mailing/furnishing events; supplemental statement does not automatically extend substantive appeal. C084. |
| M54 | Postmark before expiration; missing-postmark presumption 5 days before receipt — § 20.110(a) | Board filing timeliness | Presumed five-day computation excludes Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays; not proof of actual mailing or applicable to every VA act. C085. |
| M55 | Exclude first day, include last; next workday where applicable — §§ 3.110, 20.110(b)–20.111 | Specified filing/action periods | Separate regulatory scopes; current statutory issuance mismatch remains. No actual holiday calendar constructed. C075, C085. |
| M56 | Before expiration / good cause — § 20.504; § 20.203(c); § 3.109(b) | Extensions | Legacy contested substantive-appeal request must precede expiration; other good-cause clauses have distinct requirements. No automatic extension. C075, C085. |
| M57 | Within 60 days of hearing-notice letter or no later than 2 weeks before hearing, whichever earlier — § 20.711(b)(2)(i) | Contested hearing-date change request | All-party consent and incorporated written/good-cause conditions also matter. No actual hearing date. C087. |
| M58 | Ordinarily no more than 30 days — § 20.711(b)(2)(ii) | Hearing postponement | Qualified by good cause and presiding-member determination; not an unconditional extension. C087. |
| M59 | 10 days from actual receipt of motion copy — § 20.711(b)(3) | Other interested party’s written response | Certified-mail/return-receipt service and proof requirements are expressly stated; no receipt inferred. C087. |
| M60 | 90 days after enactment — S025 § 601(b) | 1972 § 505 amendment | Enactment Oct. 24, 1972; no derived calendar date or current education entitlement. C008, C092. |
| M61 | Jan. 1, 1979 — S027 § 401 | Selected 1978 pension enactment | Historical application date; program-preservation conditions remain distinct. C092. |
| M62 | Later of 540 days after enactment or 30 days after prescribed certification — S018 § 2(x) | Appeals modernization transition | Conditions and early-election provisions read; S021 separately states the actual Feb. 19, 2019 effective date. No independent calendar arithmetic. C090. |
| M63 | Jan. 2, 2025; Aug. 10, 2022; Dec. 22, 2006 — S008, S022, S023 | Enactment dates for material definition/notice/facility changes | Actual amendatory sections read; no separate delayed effective clause found within the selected sections. Not a complete Act-wide later-history conclusion. C089, C091. |
Each row is a generic legal-category branch. “Missing facts” identifies the absent predicates; it is not a request to provide private information.
| Branch; coverage | Supported conditional rule and exact claims/sources | Missing authority or predicate | Adverse inference to avoid | Next permissible generic public-law inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B01 — Program/type unknown. Partial. | Identify the benefit before selecting § 5307 or §§ 3.451–3.455; pension, compensation, DIC and education references differ. C005–C008, C045; S001, S002, S004. | Benefit category and governing program. | Every VA or military payment is apportionable alike. | Read only the public eligibility/payment provision for the relevant generic program category. |
| B02 — Underlying entitlement unknown. Unresolved application. | Apportionment concerns otherwise payable benefits; it does not establish primary entitlement. C005, C021, C053. | Entitlement, payable rate and award basis. | An eligible relative creates the primary benefit. | Examine the corresponding generic chapter 11, 13 or 15 entitlement clause; actual evidence remains held. |
| B03 — Claimant category unknown. Partial. | Spouse, child and dependent-parent routes differ; parent apportionment in § 3.451 is compensation-only. C013, C019, C043–C044; S002, S004. | Qualifying legal relationship and dependency. | Any family member or support recipient qualifies. | §§ 101(3)–(5), 102–103 and the specific § 3.57/3.59/3.250 clause. |
| B04 — Spouse-definition alignment. Partial. | Current § 101(3), older § 3.50 and official marriage instruction must be distinguished. C032–C034, C089. | Complete later implementation and applicable marriage law. | Older opposite-sex wording proves present exclusion, or a generic policy proves individual entitlement. | Public implementation of P.L. 118-210 § 303 and narrow § 103(c) marriage rules; no party or opinion query. |
| B05 — Child age/relationship unknown. Partial. | Unmarried status, relationship and one age/capacity/education alternative are cumulative. C035–C039; S004, S002. | Category, school approval, adoption/placement/capacity predicates. | Every adult child or student qualifies for every apportionment route. | § 101(4), § 104 and the precise § 3.57 subdivision; retain § 3.455’s narrower condition. |
| B06 — Living arrangement/custody unknown. Partial. | Current surviving-spouse route requires nonresidence caused by incarceration and prior residence; pension custody definitions have limited scope. C015, C040, C053. | Legal custody, residence history and applicable program. | Separate addresses alone prove legal custody or entitlement. | §§ 3.451(a)(2), 3.57(d), 3.60, without a household or custody-record inquiry. |
| B07 — Support-contribution predicate. Answered boundary. | Former nonsupport route is historical; support still matters in specified pension/dependency definitions. C028, C044, C053. | Applicable current route and legal definition. | Nonsupport alone establishes a new 2026 apportionment. | Compare current §§ 3.451–3.452 with §§ 3.23(d)(1), 3.250 and the historical text only where transition is established. |
| B08 — General versus special route. Answered with transition limit. | Old general/special categories were replaced for current new receipts; existing paid awards have a continuation clause. C010–C011, C028–C031, C094. | Claim/payment status at transition; pending-claim rule. | Familiar former labels remain current operative sections. | Official public transition instructions implementing § 3.450(a)–(b); failed manual cannot fill the gap. |
| B09 — Best-interest/fiduciary standard. Partial. | § 5502’s beneficiary-interest payment authority is distinct from dependent apportionment. C018, C048. | Appointment authority and applicable route. | An apportionee is automatically a fiduciary or negotiator. | § 5502 and the narrowly referenced Part 13 appointment clauses. |
| B10 — Current hardship predicate. Answered rule; application unresolved. | § 5503(a)(2) requires affirmative hardship plus the specified care, marriage and § 1521(b) conditions. C021–C022. | Every qualifying fact and actual authorized determination. | The 2026 rule eliminated all hardship requirements. | Current § 5503(a)(2) implementation and reconciliation with § 3.452(b)(2)(ii). |
| B11 — Competing hardship. Historical boundary answered. | Former § 3.451 prohibited undue hardship to others; that is not a universal current new-claim balancing formula. C029–C030. | Whether a preserved historical award requires that analysis. | One claimant’s hardship automatically defeats or guarantees another’s payment. | Verified transition/continuation instructions and the exact retained-award authority. |
| B12 — Resources/special needs. Answered boundary. | Historical special-apportionment and current parent-dependency factors have different functions. C029, C044. | Applicable route, legal income/estate treatment and facts. | “Needs” establishes exempt funds or an affordable allocation. | The exact § 3.250 income/estate cross-reference or authenticated historical continuation rule. |
| B13 — Percentage denominator. Answered. | Former >50%/<20% statements were ordinary benchmarks measured against veteran benefits. C030; M13. | No current applicability or actual denominator. | A guaranteed 20% award or absolute 50% cap. | Current § 3.452 or § 3.665 amount clause, depending on route; do not recycle historical percentages. |
| B14 — Institutional/capacity category. Partial. | Incompetent-without-fiduciary care and competent-married reduced-pension routes differ. C018–C022, C047–C051. | Legal capacity determination, qualifying care, pension category. | Institutional residence or diagnosis proves incompetency. | § 3.353 and the complete relevant § 3.551/§ 5503 clause. |
| B15 — Incarceration/status category. Partial. | Compensation/DIC felony route and pension felony-or-misdemeanor route have different conditions. C054–C066. | Applicable legal status, facility, duration and historical category. | A generic custody label establishes disqualification. | §§ 5313, 1505, 5313B and corresponding complete §§ 3.665–3.666; no record query. |
| B16 — Restricted category and exception. Partial. | § 3.453 requires specified VA findings, forfeiture or conviction predicates; independent survivor rights may differ. C023–C025, C067–C068. | Authorized finding and applicable statutory restriction. | Allegations or another person’s forfeiture bar every family benefit. | Exact §§ 6103–6105 and, if necessary, the complete public § 3.905 procedure. |
| B17 — Surviving-spouse DIC route. Partial. | Incarceration, prior residence, qualifying child and age/incapacity rules are cumulative. C015, C027, C035. | All relationship, residence and benefit predicates. | Every noncustodial child receives part of DIC. | §§ 3.451(a)(2), 3.455, 3.57 and 3.665 together. |
| B18 — Child on active duty. Answered rule. | Existing spouse award, entry into duty and already-on-duty-at-receipt are distinct cases. C016. | Applicable active-duty category and timing. | Entry necessarily creates, increases or terminates every apportioned amount. | § 3.451(b) and the narrow incorporated active-duty definition; broader service regime held. |
| B19 — Adopted-out child/additional dependent amount. Partial. | Child’s own-benefit status and § 1115 additional compensation differ. C041. | Actual program and current benefit predicates. | Adoption out removes every benefit or preserves every additional dependent amount. | §§ 3.57(a)(4), 3.58 and, if separately needed, current § 1115. |
| B20 — Current versus historical text. Partial. | Later amendments and retained stale cross-references must be identified separately. C031–C033, C052, C066, C072. | Complete corrective/implementation history. | Repeal, invalidity or an implied safe harbor merely from inconsistent text. | Relevant official amendatory/correction body for the exact mismatch. |
| B21 — Effective date unresolved. Partial. | § 3.400(e) has a general receipt rule and three exception categories. C069–C070. | Receipt, entitlement, primary-award and transition facts. | Request date, decision date and deposit date are identical. | § 3.400(e), applicable § 3.665(f)/3.666 clause and § 3.31(c)(3). |
| B22 — Initiation versus adjudication. Answered boundary. | Prescribed claim and completeness rules precede a decision. C012, C073–C074. | Complete authorized submission and merits evidence. | An inquiry or intent automatically grants an award. | Current generic prescribed-claim instructions and §§ 3.155(b), 3.160(a); no completed form. |
| B23 — Contested classification. Partial. | Functional competing-benefit effects determine the § 20.3(l) category. C078–C080. | Procedural classification and modern/legacy status. | Every disagreement is a simultaneous contest, or none is. | § 20.3(l), § 3.2400 and § 19.2. |
| B24 — Notice and other-party response. Partial. | All interested parties have specified notice rights; response follows communication of the relevant appeal substance. C076–C084. | Notice stage, content, authorized delivery and relevant party status. | An ordinary claimant notice satisfies every contested-party requirement. | § 7105A; modern §§ 20.400–20.407 or legacy §§ 19.100–19.102. |
| B25 — Appeal period/current wording. Partial. | Statute and § 3.2500(g) use issuance; § 20.402 retains mailing. C081–C082. | Complete current implementation, actual issuance/delivery and applicable extension rule. | A universal date based on an assumed letter, receipt or ordinary one-year period. | Public implementation of P.L. 117-168 § 807 plus the exact current counting provision. |
| B26 — Hearing and rescheduling. Answered narrow rule. | Other parties receive notice/opportunity; no cross-examination; special consent, service and timing rules govern changes. C086–C087. | Hearing classification, service, consent and good-cause determination. | A unilateral request automatically postpones a contested hearing. | §§ 20.711 and 20.704(c); no actual motion or notice. |
| B27 — Later change/termination. Partial. | Existing-award circumstances, release, last-payment and overpayment qualifications can alter payment. C011, C060–C061, C064, C071–C072. | Event, notice, continuing entitlement and correct aligned text. | Apportionment continues permanently or ends on an assumed date. | §§ 3.450(b), 3.500(d), 3.556(e), 3.665(i) or 3.666(c), route-specific. |
| B28 — Death/survivor context. Partial. | Death can end the circumstances supporting an existing apportionment; independent survivor benefits are separate. C007, C011, C032, C067. | Applicable survivor entitlement, death-related effective provision and actual facts. | An apportionment automatically converts to a survivor award. | Relevant generic chapter 13/15 survivor provision and precise discontinuance/substitution clause if needed. |
| B29 — Current dollar base unavailable. Unresolved. | Readable law refers to § 1114(a), but its current dollar body was not retrieved. C056, C093; S029. | Authenticated current rate and adjustment authority. | A remembered or historical dollar amount is current. | Reopen the official § 1114(a) body and applicable public rate-adjustment authority without a workaround. |
| B30 — Apportionment versus fiduciary/assignment/support/recovery. Excluded downstream merits. | The selected mechanism does not decide those separate legal questions. C048, C095. | Separate governing authority and every application fact. | Apportionment forgives debt, satisfies support, grants representation or proves protection. | The exact next authority listed in § 4.2, as a separate bounded component. |
| B31 — Source/currentness failure. Partial. | Failure is a limitation on evidence, not repeal or absence of protection. C003, C093–C094. | Failed bodies and unexamined later chain. | A search preview or older edition authenticates current law. | Ordinary official reopening, current correction/publication text, or a readable official alternate; no gate bypass. |
| B32 — Actual facts and parent dimensions. Excluded application. | No actual eligibility, hardship, allocation or debt-relief conclusion is possible from categories alone. C096. | All individual and operational predicates. | This report is an eligibility instrument, filing recommendation or acceptance. | Only a separately authorized generic public-law question; no identifying evidence request in this pass. |
The field labels are generic analytical categories. Every authority-entry, evidence-entry, analysis and result cell is blank. This is not a questionnaire, application or request for records.
| Analytical field | Authority entry | Evidence entry | Analysis | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source issuer/title | ||||
| Literal public source URL | ||||
| Displayed compilation/version | ||||
| Publication/legal status | ||||
| Effective/application provision | ||||
| Actual access/read bounds | ||||
| Source failure or alternate-access limit | ||||
| Generic benefit/program category | ||||
| Underlying-entitlement authority | ||||
| Generic beneficiary/claimant category | ||||
| Incorporated relationship definition | ||||
| Age/education/incapacity category | ||||
| Parent/dependency category | ||||
| Current versus historical route | ||||
| Living-arrangement/custody category | ||||
| Support/contribution predicate | ||||
| Institutional-care category | ||||
| Capacity/fiduciary-status authority | ||||
| Hardship predicate | ||||
| Competing-hardship authority | ||||
| Resources/special-needs legal category | ||||
| Discretionary language | ||||
| Mandatory restriction | ||||
| Exception/exception-to-exception | ||||
| Percentage or proportion | ||||
| Numerator/denominator or monetary base | ||||
| Unit and strict/inclusive boundary | ||||
| Trigger/reference event | ||||
| Counting/delivery convention | ||||
| Initiation/completeness/decision distinction | ||||
| Modern/legacy classification | ||||
| Simultaneously contested classification | ||||
| Notice recipient/content authority | ||||
| Response/review/hearing authority | ||||
| Effective-date exception | ||||
| Increase/decrease/discontinuance authority | ||||
| Release/resumption/prior-payment boundary | ||||
| Statutory/regulatory discrepancy | ||||
| Unread incorporated authority | ||||
| Assignment/protection/support boundary | ||||
| Recovery/waiver/debt-consequence boundary | ||||
| Missing evidence/authority | ||||
| Next permissible generic public-law inquiry |
“Answered” means the bounded public-text question is answered, not that any individual application is established. Branch coverage is separately itemized in B01–B32.
| User question/material subquestion | Status and finding | Claim/source/branch links | Missing evidence and exact next permissible inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 Complete § 5307 | Answered. Complete operative body read. | C005–C008; S001; B01–B02. | Full underlying program entitlement remains outside scope. |
| 1.2 Actual regulatory organization | Answered. Six substantive sections; remaining selected numbers reserved. | C002, C010–C027; S002, S005. | No invented reserved body. |
| 1.3 Nested clauses and incorporated bodies | Partial. Material care, relationship, incarceration, forfeiture and procedure clauses read. | C032–C087; S004, S010–S017; § 2.3. | Current § 1114(a) dollar body failed; full specialized regimes held. Reopen that exact official clause if needed. |
| 1.4 Version/status/access/effectiveness | Answered within display limits. Dates distinguished. | C001–C004, C088–C094; source register. | Exhaustive post-compilation chain not established. |
| 1.5 Statute/regulation discrepancies | Partial. Specific differences identified without silent reconciliation. | C022, C033, C037, C050, C052, C066, C072, C082. | Read exact official corrective/implementation instruments for each discrepancy. |
| 2.1 Benefit categories | Answered selected scope. Pension, compensation, DIC, EORT and education references distinguished. | C005–C008, C045; S001, S004. | Complete eligibility and current rates held. |
| 2.2 Veteran/service/care definitions | Partial by scope. Necessary definitions read; no service dossier. | C046; S004, S002 R-D1. | Specific specialized service/approval regime only if independently necessary. |
| 2.3 Spouse/surviving spouse | Partial. Current statute, old regulation and public instruction distinguished. | C032–C034; B04. | Complete implementation/remarriage history and actual marriage law absent. |
| 2.4 Child/adoption/school/incapacity | Answered definitions; partial reconciliation. All material § 3.57 clauses read. | C035–C042; M03–M08; B05, B17–B19. | Post-death adoption wording alignment and any actual status unresolved. |
| 2.5 Parent/dependency | Answered generic definition. Status and financial dependency separated. | C043–C044; M09–M10; B03, B12. | Full income-character and estate computation remains separate. |
| 2.6 Basic entitlement/additional amount/recipient/apportionment | Answered boundary. Distinct concepts. | C041, C048, C053; comparisons. | Actual award and legal recipient absent. |
| 3.1 Living together/separate residence/custody | Answered current/historical distinction. | C006, C015, C028, C040, C053; B06–B08. | No actual relationship or custody finding. |
| 3.2 Support responsibility/contribution | Answered boundary. Former nonsupport route not current new-claim rule; support remains in other defined contexts. | C028, C044, C053; B07. | Current route must be identified first. |
| 3.3 Institutional/incompetency route | Answered provisions; application unresolved. | C013, C018–C022, C047–C051; B14. | Capacity/care determinations and current aligned timing absent. |
| 3.4 Hardship required for which route | Answered with discrepancy preserved. § 5503(a)(2) expressly requires it. | C022, C029; B10–B11. | Complete implementation of regulatory omission remains open. |
| 3.5 Duty versus discretion | Answered. Permissive, mandatory and prohibitory wording distinguished. | C009, C013–C027; comparison table. | No isolated wording establishes a specific award. |
| 4.1 Current special/hardship rule | Answered. Former special rule replaced; residual statute identified. | C022, C028–C031. | No universal new hardship formula supplied. |
| 4.2 Resources/income/special needs | Answered legal-category boundary. | C029, C044; B12. | No financial evidence or protected-funds determination. |
| 4.3 Claimant versus competing hardship | Answered historical/current distinction. | C022, C029–C030; B10–B11. | Actual balancing and retained-award applicability absent. |
| 4.4 Percentages/base/ordinary qualifications | Answered. Historical strict comparisons and current monetary/reference-rate bases preserved. | C020–C022, C030, C056–C057; M13–M15, M30, M33. | Current § 1114 dollar amount failed; no actual denominator. |
| 5.1 Claim-dependent restrictions | Answered. Prescribed claim and spouse/child prerequisites. | C012, C023; B22. | Completeness and authorized signature absent. |
| 5.2 Forfeiture/conduct categories | Answered selected boundary; full procedure excluded. | C024–C025, C067–C068; S014; B16. | § 3.905 full procedure and actual finding remain held. |
| 5.3 Incarceration/fugitive categories | Answered generic framework; application unresolved. | C054–C066; B15. | No legal-status or facility fact; broader criminal law excluded. |
| 5.4 Active-duty/adopted-out child | Answered with historical distinction. | C016, C031, C041; B18–B19. | No actual service/adoption category. |
| 5.5 Institutional/pension limitations | Partial. Relevant reduction and exception clauses read; discrepancies explicit. | C049–C053, C072; B14. | Exact section 306 timing alignment and complete separate A&A/Medicaid systems held. |
| 5.6 Death/survivor context | Partial. Selected apportionment and continuation provisions covered. | C007, C011, C015, C027, C067; B28. | Full survivor entitlement and death-processing regimes excluded. |
| 6.1 Initiation versus adjudication | Answered boundary. | C012, C073–C074; B22. | No actual submission or decision. |
| 6.2 Contested classification | Answered definition; application unresolved. | C078–C080; B23. | Competing-payment effects and review-system status absent. |
| 6.3 Notice recipients/content | Answered selected clauses. | C076–C084; B24. | Actual notice delivery/election/content absent. |
| 6.4 Response/review/appeal periods | Partial. Periods and triggers documented; issuance/mailing alignment unresolved. | C081–C085; M49–M56; B25. | Exact public implementation of 2022 notice amendment. |
| 6.5 Hearing/evidence rules | Answered narrow contested clauses. | C083, C086–C087; M52, M57–M59; B26. | Full evidentiary record/judicial review outside scope. |
| 6.6 Effective/payment dates | Partial. General rule and exceptions read; no actual calculation. | C059–C060, C064, C069–C072; M34–M44. | Receipt, entitlement, notice and prior-payment predicates absent. |
| 6.7 Increase/decrease/termination/resumption | Partial. Route-specific rules covered. | C011, C060–C061, C064, C071–C072; B27. | Compilation mismatch and actual event remain unresolved. |
| 7.1 Fiduciary/representative distinction | Answered narrow boundary. | C048, C095; S010; B09, B30. | Complete Part 13 authority/appointment regime held. |
| 7.2 Assignment/attachment/protected deposit | Excluded merits with precise next pointer. | C095; § 4.2; B30. | § 5301 and applicable legal-process regime require separate inquiry. |
| 7.3 Support/divorce/creditor collection | Excluded merits. No equivalence inferred. | C095; § 4.2. | Separate governing jurisdiction and statutory authority. |
| 7.4 Recovery/waiver/debt release/tax/credit/bankruptcy | Excluded parent dimensions. | C095–C096; § 4.2; B30–B32. | Separate authorities and all actual facts absent. |
| 8.1 Current 2026 adoption and nomenclature | Answered selected instruments. Actual amendatory text read. | C088; S005–S006. | No unexamined later amendment asserted absent. |
| 8.2 Later material statutory changes | Answered narrow changes. 2025 definition, 2022 notice, 2006 facility changes authenticated. | C089–C091; S008, S022–S023. | Complete downstream implementation remains partial. |
| 8.3 Historical pension/education/appeal transitions | Partial. Selected 1972, 1978, 2001, 2017–2019 instruments read; 1989 direct access limited. | C055, C090, C092; S018–S027. | Complete earlier and intervening chain not claimed. |
| 8.4 Failures and source status | Answered as evidence limitations. | C003–C004, C093–C094; failure log. | Ordinary official reopens only; no bypass. |
| 8.5 Judicial/later-law treatment | Unresolved/excluded by scope. | C003, C093. | No opinions, dockets or case records queried. |
| 9.1 All requested comparisons | Answered with express holds. | § 4; C005–C095. | No comparison is individualized. |
| 9.2 Complete relied-on measurement register | Answered. Units, bases, strictness, triggers and qualifications recorded. | M01–M63. | No actual amount, count, deadline or model. |
| 10.1 At least twenty substantive branches | Answered. Thirty-two branches supplied. | B01–B32, each with claim/source and next inquiry. | Application predicates remain absent as stated per row. |
| 10.2 Adaptation to actual current text | Answered. Former general/special and percentage branches classified historically. | B07–B13, B20–B21. | No fabricated current condition used to fill a row. |
| 11.1 Wholly blank worksheet | Answered. All entry/analysis/result cells blank. | § 7. | No identifying entries, examples, application or outcome. |
| 11.2 Scope and acceptance boundary | Answered boundary. | C096; self-check below. | No component, parent, operational or publication acceptance. |
The register and reading-bounds table above form the successful-read log. The following records preserve failures, fallbacks and non-evidentiary material.
| Log item | Exact endpoint or source event | Result and bounded treatment |
|---|---|---|
| F01 — Initial statutory viewer | https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section5307&num=0&edition=prelim | Returned a failed/404-style response. S001 was subsequently read through the successful current OLRC section body. |
| F02 — Incorrect discovery group URL | https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-3/subpart-A/subject-group-ECFR7f1bfddfe464f83 | Inaccessible. No text inferred. Correct apportionment group URL is S002. |
| F03 — Initial current OLRC openings | Current-prefix endpoints for § 5307, § 5502, § 5503, § 5313, § 7105A, § 1505, § 5313B, § 501, § 6103, § 6104, § 6105, § 1521, § 1522 | Some initial direct opens failed. Subsequent ordinary navigation/opening produced the current bodies recorded in the register. A successful later read does not erase the initial failures. Full literal endpoints are in S001, S003, S010–S015. |
| F04 — Generic § 6104 route | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/t38/s6104/ | Failed; current body later reached through official adjacent-section navigation. |
| F05 — Older redirects | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/t38/s101/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/t38/s5307/ | Initial generic navigation exposed older compilation versions, including Oct. 6/Oct. 9 labels. The successful P.L. 119-134 bodies were subsequently read. Older redirects were not relabeled current. |
| F06 — Historical eCFR date routes | https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2026-02-08/title-38/chapter-I/part-3/subpart-A/subject-group-ECFRefca2e78000b27d https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2026-02-08/title-38/section-3.451 https://www.ecfr.gov/2025-07-01/title-38/chapter-I/part-3/subpart-A/subject-group-ECFRefca2e78000b27d | Failed historical access. Official 2025 CFR PDFs were used only as historical evidence, with exact edition limits. |
| F07 — Historical CFR HTML | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title38-vol1/html/CFR-2025-title38-vol1-sec3-451.htm | Inaccessible; official PDF counterpart read. |
| F08 — Manual body unavailable | S028 complete literal KnowVA URL | Returned JavaScript-disabled text only. No manual instruction, transition rule or preview date adopted as evidence. |
| F09 — Federal Register access gate | https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/84-FR-177, redirect to https://unblock.federalregister.gov | Access-request page encountered; no interaction or workaround. Official GovInfo 2019 rule body was read instead. |
| F10 — 2019 effective-date HTML | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-07/html/2019-01432.htm | Inaccessible; complete relevant VA segment in official PDF S021 read. |
| F11 — Statutes-at-Large viewers | https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.html?page=2064&volume=103 https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.html?page=2510&volume=92 | Viewer shells did not expose the actual page body in the returned text. No visual-page inspection claimed. Official PDF alternatives were attempted/read as documented. |
| F12 — 1989 PDF reopening | S026 GovInfo PDF; S026 Congress PDF alternative | Repeated targeted GovInfo openings timed out; Congress alternative returned restricted-URL failure. Earlier parsed extraction remains limited; no complete-file or pixel claim. |
| F13 — Current § 1114 rate body | S029 two complete literal URLs | Current endpoint inaccessible; generic endpoint yielded no substantive rate body. No current dollar amount supplied. |
| F14 — Later § 5503 reopen | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5503/ | A direct retry failed; reopening the already retrieved official reference succeeded and exposed the complete operative body. Both outcomes retained. |
| F15 — Discovery-only material | Search results, source-credit links, adjacent unexamined clauses and unsolicited third-party results | Used only to locate public law. No actual case/opinion/party record was opened or relied on; no mirror was labeled an official current body. |
| Gap | Precisely unresolved | Why it matters; next permissible public-law inquiry |
|---|---|---|
| G01 — Pre-transition pending, unpaid claims | § 3.450 expressly addresses new receipts and already-paid apportionments, but this pass did not authenticate complete instructions for every pending-before-date/unpaid situation. | Could determine which substantive standard applies. Reopen readable official generic transition instructions; do not infer the answer from the failed manual preview. |
| G02 — Statutory hardship versus regulatory omission | Complete implementation of § 5503(a)(2)’s affirmative-hardship condition alongside § 3.452(b)(2)(ii). | The statutory condition cannot be omitted merely because the new regulation is shorter. Read exact official implementation or corrective text. |
| G03 — Marriage and surviving-spouse alignment | Full reconciliation of current § 101(3), retained § 101(31)/§ 3.50 wording, § 103 exceptions and VA public instruction. | No universal eligibility or disqualification conclusion. Full marital/judicial regimes remain held. |
| G04 — Post-death adoption alignment | The different historical date and support wording in § 101(4)(A) and § 3.57(c). | No inferred automatic invalidity, broader eligibility or personal outcome. Read exact relevant amendment/application history. |
| G05 — Section 306 reduction timing | § 3.551(c)’s second-month wording versus § 3.501(i)(2)(ii)’s third-month hospital/nursing-home wording. | No reduction date selected. Authenticate the precise correction/history before operational application. |
| G06 — Stale references and § 3.556(e) | Obsolete § 3.454(b)/§ 3.458 references and retained old sentence in the compiled § 3.556(e). | No implied continuation or removed restriction reconstructed. Published amendment and any subsequent correction must be read together. |
| G07 — Current monetary base | § 1114(a) body and any applicable current rate-adjustment authority. | The incarceration rule’s named reference rate is supported, but its dollar value is not. |
| G08 — Notice/counting alignment | “Issued” in current § 7105A and § 3.2500(g) versus “mailed” in § 20.402, including electronic-notice implications. | No actual appeal deadline, deemed receipt or automatic extension. Read exact current public implementation. |
| G09 — Historical-chain completeness | Full direct 1989 amendatory access and every intervening amendment/correction to all subsidiary provisions. | Current readable provisions remain evidence, but exhaustive historical completeness is not claimed. |
| G10 — Post-compilation and judicial history | Law or judicial treatment beyond the displayed compilation boundaries, and all unexamined judicial history. | No absence-of-change, validity, stay, vacatur or litigation conclusion. |
| G11 — Actual predicates | Every relationship, benefit, support, capacity, hardship, institutional, status, notice, payment and entitlement fact. | Entire application remains unresolved; this pass requests none of those records. |
| G12 — Parent dimensions | Full benefit eligibility, fiduciary administration, support enforcement, assignment, attachment, protected deposits, debt recovery/waiver, tax, credit, bankruptcy and other military/family remedies. | Separate authorities and a separately bounded inquiry are necessary. No apportionment provision resolves them by implication. |
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Independent source foundation for this component | Public originals were reopened; prior conversation/report conclusions were not used as premises. |
| Complete selected current core | § 5307 and all substantive current sections in §§ 3.450–3.461 were read; reserved numbers were identified rather than supplied with invented text. |
| Actual 2026 change recognized | New operative bodies, application date, existing-paid-award continuation and historical general/special rules were separated. |
| Material statutory qualifications retained | The § 5503 hardship condition, later surviving-spouse amendment, later facility language and later notice amendment remain visible. |
| Mandatory/discretionary language | “May,” “will,” “will not,” “generally” and historical “ordinarily” were not converted into a guaranteed award. |
| Measurement discipline | All relied-on quantities are registered with units, bases, triggers and qualifications; no benefit amount, family illustration or actual deadline was computed. |
| Source failures | Failed originals, older redirects, gate response, inaccessible manual and rate-base failure remain visible. |
| PDF discipline | Parsed text was not described as pixel inspection; printed pages and zero-based indices were separated where used. |
| No actual or fictional records | No identifying party, benefit record, household, financial/medical data, claim, application, notice or dispute was created or inspected. |
| No unauthorized operations | No accounts, contacts, filings, records requests, website changes, security workarounds, subagents or additional chats were used. |
| Provenance claims | No local files, hashes, imports, independent reviewer, or unseen model/UI verification is claimed. |
| Review/acceptance status | This is the researcher’s own check, not independent review, and supplies no component, A076/parent, operational or publication acceptance. |
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Source ID; issuer and title · Complete literal HTTPS URL · Exact reading and reliance bounds · 13 data rows
| Source ID; issuer and title | Complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact reading and reliance bounds | Version, legal status, effective/application information, and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-S001 — Congress/OLRC, 38 U.S.C. § 5307, Apportionment of benefits | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5307/ | Complete operative body, subsections (a)–(c), source credit and displayed relevant notes. | Federal statute; display through P.L. 119-134, Oct. 20, 2026. Complete selected section, not complete Title 38 or amendment/judicial chain. uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-S002 — VA/OFR/GPO, 38 CFR Part 3, Adjudication; selected apportionment group and indispensable clauses | https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-3/subpart-A/subject-group-ECFRefca2e78000b27d https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-3 | Complete §§ 3.450–3.455 and reserved §§ 3.456–3.461. Additional exact clause reads are itemized in § 2.3 below. | eCFR through Oct. 26, 2026. Current regulations as compiled; core application date Feb. 9, 2026. Whole Part 3 was not read or analyzed. Compilation mismatches remain visible. Apportionments |
| R076-P1-S003 — Congress/OLRC, 38 U.S.C. § 501, Rules and regulations | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s501/ | Complete (a)–(d); reliance on rulemaking authority and consistency with administered laws. | Current statutory compilation through Oct. 20, 2026. Does not establish an individual decision-maker’s actual delegation or a particular entitlement. uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-S004 — Congress/OLRC, selected general definitions and relationship provisions | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s101/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s102/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s103/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s104/ | § 101: complete material clauses (1)–(5), (13)–(17), (20)–(24), (28), (31), (34); other definitions not a complete service-eligibility analysis. §§ 102(a)–(c), 103(a)–(e), 104(a)–(b) read completely. | Current statutory compilation through Oct. 20, 2026. Chapter-specific exceptions and incorporated service/insurance regimes remain bounded. § 103’s complete remarriage regime is not operationalized here. uscode.house.gov +3 |
| R076-P1-S009 — VA, public marriage-benefits information | https://www.va.gov/opa/marriage/ | Substantive introductory marriage-recognition text and pertinent FAQs; reliance limited to VA’s statement about recognition of same-sex marriages and evidence requirements. | Official generic agency instruction, not enacted law or an independently examined judicial holding. Publisher/issuance date not established. No actual marriage or eligibility determination. va.gov |
| R076-P1-S010 — Congress/OLRC, 38 U.S.C. § 5502, Payments to and supervision of fiduciaries | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5502/ | (a)–(d) read; reliance limited to (a)(1) and the material pending-fiduciary/apportionment language in (d). | Current statutory compilation through Oct. 20, 2026. Fiduciary administration, fees, death distribution, and an actual appointment are not determined. uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-S011 — Congress/OLRC, 38 U.S.C. § 5503, Hospitalized veterans and estates of incompetent institutionalized veterans | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5503/ | Complete operative (a)–(d) read; substantive reliance here on (a)–(b). Selected amendment notes read. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. The separate aid-and-attendance and Medicaid provisions were encountered but are not a complete additional program investigation. A later attempted reopening failed; the successful complete body remains separately recorded. uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-S012 — Congress/OLRC, pension entitlement and estate provisions | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s1521/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s1522/ | § 1521 operative (a)–(j) and § 1522(a)–(b) read. Reliance limited to the distinctions incorporated by §§ 3.452, 3.551 and 5503. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. Printed statutory base rates are not quoted as current adjusted benefit rates. Full pension eligibility, income computation and current rate adjustment remain held. uscode.house.gov +1 |
| R076-P1-S013 — Congress/OLRC, incarceration and fugitive-status provisions | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s1505/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5313/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5313B/ | Complete operative § 1505(a)–(c), § 5313(a)–(e), § 5313B(a)–(d); reliance on benefit, recipient, facility, timing and apportionment predicates. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. No criminal-law, actual custody, fugitive-status or law-enforcement-record investigation. Data-disclosure operations in § 5313B(d) are not implemented. uscode.house.gov +2 |
| R076-P1-S014 — Congress/OLRC, forfeiture and subversive-activity provisions | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s6103/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s6104/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s6105/ | Complete operative bodies and pertinent notes; read with §§ 3.900–3.904. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. The enumerated criminal cross-references were preserved, not expanded into a criminal-law dossier. No allegation is treated as a finding or conviction. uscode.house.gov +2 |
| R076-P1-S015 — Congress/OLRC, contested claims and decision notices | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s7105A/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5104/ | Complete § 7105A(a)–(b), § 5104(a)–(d). Reliance on the special contested period, other-party response, notice contents and electronic-notice election. | Current through Oct. 20, 2026. No actual issuance, mailing, receipt, election or appeal determined. uscode.house.gov +1 |
| R076-P1-S016 — VA/OFR/GPO, 38 CFR Part 20, Board of Veterans’ Appeals: Rules of Practice | https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-20 | Complete material clauses: §§ 20.3, 20.4, 20.105, 20.110–20.111, 20.203; §§ 20.400–20.407; §§ 20.500–20.505; § 20.704(c); § 20.711. Selected adjacent appeal/evidence provisions were read, not the whole Part. | eCFR through Oct. 26, 2026. Modern and legacy provisions kept separate. Statutory “issued” versus regulatory “mailing” discrepancy retained. ecfr.gov +3 |
| R076-P1-S017 — VA/OFR/GPO, 38 CFR Part 19, Board of Veterans’ Appeals: Legacy Appeals Regulations | https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-19 | Complete §§ 19.1–19.2 and 19.100–19.102. | eCFR through Oct. 23, 2026. Legacy classification and contested notices only; not all legacy appeal procedures. ecfr.gov +1 |
Source ID; issuer/instrument · Complete literal HTTPS URL · Exact read bounds; pagination · 16 data rows
| Source ID; issuer/instrument | Complete literal HTTPS URL | Exact read bounds; pagination | Publication, effective/application status, and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-S005 — VA, “Apportionments,” final rule, 91 FR 899–907 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-09/html/2026-00237.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-09/pdf/2026-00237.pdf https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/09/2026-00237/apportionments | Dates, selected introductory preamble, and all amendatory instructions 1–17, including the complete substituted core bodies. Operative amendments printed pp. 905–907; corresponding PDF indices 6–8. PDF package pp. 899–907, indices 0–8; substantive reliance is on the official HTML amendatory body, not a claim of whole-PDF visual review. | Published Jan. 9, 2026; effective Feb. 9, 2026. Final rule, not proposal. FederalRegister.gov and GovInfo formats are the same rule, not separate corroboration. govinfo.gov +1 |
| R076-P1-S006 — VA, Jan. 22, 2026 final rule containing Part 3 nomenclature amendment, 91 FR 2709–2714 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-22/html/2026-01188.htm | Dates and actual amendatory instruction 8: Part 3 replacement of “death pension” with “survivors pension.” HTML printed pagination; no PDF-index claim. | Published Jan. 22, 2026; effective Feb. 23, 2026. Other substantive survivor-policy changes in that rule are outside this component. govinfo.gov +1 |
| R076-P1-S007 — GPO, historical July 1, 2025 CFR apportionment texts | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title38-vol1/pdf/CFR-2025-title38-vol1-sec3-450.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title38-vol1/pdf/CFR-2025-title38-vol1-sec3-451.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title38-vol1/pdf/CFR-2025-title38-vol1-sec3-458.pdf | Complete former § 3.450(a)–(g), pp. 326–327, indices 0–1 in first file; complete former § 3.451, p. 327, index 0 in its file and index 1 in the first file; complete former § 3.458, pp. 328–329, indices 0–1 in its file. Parsed text only. | Official historical annual edition, not current new-claim law. Formats overlapping on p. 327 are one historical text. No assertion that this annual edition alone authenticates every intervening amendment. govinfo.gov +2 |
| R076-P1-S008 — Congress, P.L. 118-210, § 303 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ210/html/PLAW-118publ210.htm | Complete § 303 amendatory body, printed 138 Stat. 2791–2792; enactment header. Selected section only. | Enacted Jan. 2, 2025. Rewrites § 101(3). No separate effective/application clause appears in § 303 itself; no whole-Act or full judicial-chain claim. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S018 — Congress, P.L. 115-55, Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ55/html/PLAW-115publ55.htm | Complete § 2(r), printed 131 Stat. 1112; § 2(x)(1)–(7) and pertinent rule of construction. Selected amendments/application provisions, not whole Act. | Enacted Aug. 23, 2017. Conditional effective framework separately checked against the 2019 official effective-date notice. govinfo.gov +2 |
| R076-P1-S019 — VA, “VA Claims and Appeals Modernization,” final rule, 84 FR 138 et seq. | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-01-18/html/2018-28350.htm | Dates; instruction 56 establishing §§ 19.1–19.2; selected actual Part 20 instructions 99–113, including complete §§ 20.400–20.407 and legacy redesignations, printed approximately pp. 181–184. | Published Jan. 18, 2019; stated effective Feb. 19, 2019. Not the whole lengthy preamble or complete rulemaking file. govinfo.gov +2 |
| R076-P1-S020 — VA, correction to 2019 modernization final rule | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/html/2019-01840.htm | Dates and relevant corrections, including Board authority/manual status and correction of the reserved-section designation. | Published Feb. 15, 2019; effective Feb. 19, 2019. Selected correction clauses, not an independent substantive source for unrelated appeal rules. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S021 — VA, appeals-modernization effective-date notice | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-07/pdf/2019-01432.pdf | Complete VA notice segment on printed p. 2449, PDF index 0; the page also contains unrelated material not relied on. Parsed text only. | Published Feb. 7, 2019; records Jan. 18, 2019 certification and Feb. 19, 2019 effective date. HTML alternative failed. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S022 — Congress, P.L. 117-168, § 807 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ168/html/PLAW-117publ168.htm | Complete § 807(a)(1)–(8), (b), printed 136 Stat. 1805–1806. | Enacted Aug. 10, 2022. Actual amendment changes § 7105A(a) from mailing to issuance and adds electronic-notice provisions; Board limitation preserved. No separate delayed effective clause in § 807 was found. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S023 — Congress, P.L. 109-461, § 1002 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ461/html/PLAW-109publ461.htm | Complete § 1002(a)–(g), printed 120 Stat. 3464–3465; reliance on facility-language amendments to §§ 1505 and 5313. | Enacted Dec. 22, 2006. No separate effective clause within § 1002. Other amended programs not analyzed. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S024 — Congress, P.L. 107-103, §§ 505–506 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-107publ103/html/PLAW-107publ103.htm | Complete §§ 505(a)–(b), 506(a)–(d), printed 115 Stat. 995–997. | Enacted Dec. 27, 2001. § 506 has an express 90-day/month-start application trigger. § 505’s interagency-agreement statement is not an individual claim deadline. govinfo.gov +1 |
| R076-P1-S025 — Congress, 1972 veterans-benefits enactment, §§ 505, 601 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-86/pdf/STATUTE-86-Pg1074.pdf | Complete § 505 and relevant complete § 601(a)–(b), printed p. 1099, PDF index 25. Selected pages of 26-page file; parsed text only. | Enacted Oct. 24, 1972; § 601(b) makes § 505 effective 90 days after enactment. No date calculation performed. Supports the chapter 34 addition, not present entitlement under that chapter. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S026 — Congress/GPO, 1989 enactment containing § 111 pension-care amendments; access-limited reading | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-103/pdf/STATUTE-103-Pg2062.pdf https://www.congress.gov/101/statute/STATUTE-103/STATUTE-103-Pg2062.pdf | Initial parsed header and in-document § 111 extraction were available, printed pp. 2064–2065, indices 2–3. Repeated targeted open attempts timed out; Congress alternative was restricted. | Historical enactment, Dec. 18, 1989. Full direct amendatory-body authentication remains access-limited. Current $90/third-month language is independently readable in current § 5503 and § 3.551(e); no unseen PDF or exhaustive history claim. |
| R076-P1-S027 — Congress, 1978 pension enactment, §§ 306–307, 401 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg2497.pdf | Complete § 306(a)–(e), printed pp. 2508–2510, indices 11–13; § 307, p. 2510/index 13; § 401, p. 2511/index 14. Selected portion of 15-page file, parsed text. | Enacted Nov. 4, 1978; § 401 effective Jan. 1, 1979. Historical program preservation/election provisions; old dollar tables are not quoted as current rates. govinfo.gov |
| R076-P1-S028 — VA, M21-1 public apportionment-process endpoint; failed body access | https://www.knowva.ebenefits.va.gov/system/templates/selfservice/va_ssnew/help/customer/locale/en-US/portal/554400000001018/content/554400000207953/M21-1-Part-VI-Subpart-iv-Chapter-2-Section-A-Apportionment-Process | Returned a JavaScript-disabled message, not the manual body. | Not substantive evidence. Search-preview dates were not treated as publication dates or verified instructions. No gate bypass. |
| R076-P1-S029 — OLRC § 1114 rate-base endpoint; failed narrow opening | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s1114/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/t38/s1114/ | Current endpoint inaccessible; generic endpoint returned no substantive body. | No § 1114(a) dollar amount authenticated in this pass. The references to that rate in readable §§ 5313 and 3.665 are preserved without supplying a current monetary value. |
Reading unit · Complete material clauses actually read · Reliance boundary · 9 data rows
| Reading unit | Complete material clauses actually read | Reliance boundary |
|---|---|---|
| R-D1 — Basic regulatory definitions | § 3.1(d), (h)–(l), (o)–(r), (u)–(w), (z), as relevant; § 3.23(d)(1). | Generic service, marriage, claim/receipt, program-vintage, nursing-home and dependent distinctions. No service or current rate eligibility finding. |
| R-D2 — Relationship definitions | §§ 3.50, 3.52, 3.53, 3.57, 3.58, 3.59, 3.60, complete. | § 3.57 includes its adoption, school, custody and foreign-adoption subclauses. Only part of adjacent § 3.55 was encountered; the complete remarriage-exception regime is held. |
| R-D3 — Dependency and capacity | §§ 3.250, 3.353, 3.356, complete. | Parent-dependency categories, incompetency standard/process, and permanent incapacity for self-support. No financial or medical adjudication. |
| R-I1 — Institutional care | § 3.551(a)–(i), § 3.556(a)–(f), complete; § 3.501(i) as displayed for comparison. | Reliance principally on the clauses incorporated by § 3.452. Separate aid-and-attendance, Medicaid and old withheld-estate systems are not fully resolved. |
| R-X1 — Incarceration | §§ 3.665 and 3.666, complete, including all lettered subdivisions. | Benefit-specific restrictions, allocation categories, dates, notices, resumption and exceptions. |
| R-F1 — Forfeiture | §§ 3.900–3.904, complete. | Material restrictions incorporated by § 3.453. § 3.905 was not completely read and is not used to assert a complete forfeiture procedure. |
| R-P1 — Initiation, notices, effective dates and review selection | § 3.31; § 3.103(a)–(f); §§ 3.109–3.110; § 3.155(b); § 3.160(a); § 3.217(b); § 3.400(e); § 3.500 introductory text and (d); § 3.2400(a)–(d); § 3.2500(g); § 3.2601(a). | Complete named clauses, not all surrounding claim-development, reduction, review or evidentiary regimes. |
| R-P2 — Modern/legacy Board procedure | S016 bounds listed above, especially complete §§ 20.400–20.407, 20.500–20.505 and 20.711. | No actual appeal, filing destination, docket, hearing, receipt or timeliness determination. |
| R-P3 — Legacy agency procedure | S017 §§ 19.1–19.2 and 19.100–19.102, complete. | Classification and simultaneous-contest notices only. |
Claim ID · Supported proposition · Conditions, qualifications and limits · 27 data rows
| Claim ID | Supported proposition | Conditions, qualifications and limits | Exact evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-C001 | The source openings in this pass occurred October 27, 2026 PDT. | Actual access is distinct from compilation, publication and effective dates. | Session clock; S001–S029 access record. |
| R076-P1-C002 | The selected current range has substantive §§ 3.450–3.455 and reserved §§ 3.456–3.461. | § 3.450(a) itself refers to “3.450 through 3.459”; that wording does not create substantive text in reserved sections. | S002, complete apportionment group; S005 instructions 6–13. Apportionments |
| R076-P1-C003 | The current statutory and regulatory displays have the currency boundaries stated in the source register. | Those displays do not establish exhaustive later enactments, corrections or judicial treatment through access. Related formats are not independent corroboration. | S001–S004, S015–S017 display headers; S005–S006 published amendments. |
| R076-P1-C004 | Statutes, regulations, an official public instruction and an inaccessible manual have different evidentiary status. | The failed manual is not evidence. The Board’s § 20.105 distinguishes binding law/regulations/precedential opinions from manuals and similar administrative issuances. | S016 § 20.105; S009; S028; S020 relevant correction. |
| R076-P1-C005 | § 5307(a)(1) authorizes apportionment of all or any part of compensation, pension or emergency officers’ retirement pay when the veteran receives the specified government-provided institutional care. | Potential recipients are spouse, children or dependent parents; exercise is as prescribed by the Secretary. Basic benefit entitlement is not created by this clause. | S001 § 5307(a)(1). |
| R076-P1-C006 | § 5307(a)(2) separately addresses a veteran not living with the spouse, or children not in the veteran’s custody. | It is statutory authority to apportion under prescribed rules, not a self-executing award based on separation or nonsupport alone. | S001 § 5307(a)(2). |
| R076-P1-C007 | § 5307(b) addresses pension, compensation or DIC otherwise payable to a surviving spouse when a deceased veteran’s children are not in that spouse’s custody. | The current implementing routes must also be examined; no actual custody or payment finding follows. | S001 § 5307(b). |
| R076-P1-C008 | § 5307(c) still refers to chapter 31 subsistence allowances and the dependent portion of chapter 34 educational assistance. | The 2026 rule removed and reserved § 21.330. Neither fact establishes current individual entitlement under either chapter or repeal of § 5307(c). | S001 § 5307(c); S005 instruction 17; S025 § 505. |
| R076-P1-C009 | § 501 authorizes regulations necessary or appropriate to administer VA laws, including proof, forms and adjudication matters. | Regulations must be consistent with administered statutes. Authority and discretion are not an individual entitlement or proof of an actual delegated decision. | S003 § 501(a)–(d). |
| R076-P1-C010 | The new apportionment provisions apply to claims VA receives on or after February 9, 2026. | Receipt/application status is indispensable. This does not by itself decide a claim received before that date but not yet being paid. | S002 § 3.450(a); S005 dates and substituted § 3.450. |
| R076-P1-C011 | Apportionments being paid as of February 9, 2026 continue until the circumstances supporting entitlement no longer exist. | The examples include divorce and death of the primary beneficiary or apportionee. Continuation is conditional, not permanent or immune from later adjustment. | S002 § 3.450(b). |
| R076-P1-C012 | An apportionment claim must be submitted on a form prescribed by the Secretary. | A request, intent, complete claim, adjudication and payment are distinct stages. No form was completed or transmitted. | S002 § 3.450(c), §§ 3.155(b), 3.160(a). |
| R076-P1-C013 | Current § 3.451(a)(1)(i) permits all or part of pension or disability compensation to specified dependents where the veteran is incompetent and receives qualifying U.S. or political-subdivision hospital, nursing-home or domiciliary care. | Spouse/children may receive pension or compensation; dependent parents are included for disability compensation but not pension. Both incapacity and care predicates matter. | S002 § 3.451(a)(1)(i). |
| R076-P1-C014 | Current § 3.451(a)(1)(ii) supplies the incarceration route by incorporating §§ 3.665 or 3.666. | Incarceration as an ordinary label is insufficient; benefit type, conviction, period, status and recipient restrictions remain cumulative. | S002 § 3.451(a)(1)(ii); complete §§ 3.665–3.666. |
| R076-P1-C015 | The surviving-spouse route in § 3.451(a)(2) requires children not living with the spouse because the spouse is incarcerated under § 3.665 or § 3.666. | No apportionment is payable under that clause to a child who did not reside with the surviving spouse before incarceration. | S002 § 3.451(a)(2). |
| R076-P1-C016 | Entering active duty alone does not create or change an apportionment; a claim for a child already on active duty when VA receives it is barred by the stated clause. | An existing spouse apportionment that includes a child is not changed merely because the child enters active duty. These are distinct timing situations. | S002 § 3.451(b). |
| R076-P1-C017 | Amounts payable for children under §§ 3.454 and 3.455 are divided equally among the children. | The denominator is the number of children entitled under the applicable route, not all relatives or all dependents in any program. | S002 § 3.451(c). |
| R076-P1-C018 | § 3.452(a) allows apportionment, upon an application and qualifying government-provided care, pending appointment of a guardian or other fiduciary. | The provision is not itself a fiduciary appointment or a grant of representation authority. | S002 § 3.452 introductory language and (a); S010 § 5502(d). |
| R076-P1-C019 | § 3.452(b)(1) separately addresses an incompetent veteran without a fiduciary receiving qualifying care. | Benefits may be apportioned for spouse/child; a dependent-parent apportionment is limited to disability compensation. No clinical label alone establishes VA incompetency. | S002 § 3.452(b)(1)(i)–(ii), § 3.353. |
| R076-P1-C020 | For a competent married veteran whose section 306 pension is reduced to $50 monthly under § 3.551, § 3.452(b)(2)(i) permits a spouse apportionment. | The amount generally is the difference between $50 and the total pension payable on Dec. 31, 1978. This is neither a percentage nor a universal present benefit rate. | S002 § 3.452(b)(2)(i); S027 § 306. |
| R076-P1-C021 | For a competent married veteran receiving pension under § 1521(b), reduced to $90 monthly under § 3.551, § 3.452(b)(2)(ii) permits a spouse apportionment. | The amount generally is the difference between $90 and the hypothetical § 1521(c) rate, including § 1521(e) only if entitled. The hypothetical rate and entitlement are absent. | S002 § 3.452(b)(2)(ii); S012 § 1521(b), (c), (e). |
| R076-P1-C022 | § 5503(a)(2) expressly adds an affirmative showing of hardship for its spouse-apportionment authority. | It concerns a spouse of a veteran receiving the specified care whose pension is payable under § 1521(b). It authorizes all or part of the specified excess; it does not command an award. The omission of hardship wording from § 3.452(b)(2)(ii) does not justify omitting the statute. | S011 § 5503(a)(2); S002 § 3.452(b)(2)(ii). uscode.house.gov |
| R076-P1-C023 | § 3.453(a) prohibits spouse or child apportionment without the specified claim. | Spouse must file; a child’s claim may be filed by or for the child. This clause does not itself establish signature authority, completeness or entitlement. | S002 § 3.453(a), § 3.450(c). |
| R076-P1-C024 | § 3.453(b) bars apportionment to a dependent whom VA determines committed the listed mutiny, treason, sabotage or enemy-assistance conduct. | A generic accusation or status label is not the required VA determination. | S002 § 3.453(b). |
| R076-P1-C025 | § 3.453(c) imposes the stated post-September 1, 1959 restriction where the primary beneficiary forfeited benefits for fraud/treason or was convicted of subversive activity. | The incorporated §§ 3.900–3.903 and §§ 6103–6105 distinguish actors, grounds, historical awards and other survivor rights. | S002 § 3.453(c) and note; S014. |
| R076-P1-C026 | § 3.454 uses mandatory wording for disability-pension apportionment to spouse/children and survivors-pension apportionment to children. | These short clauses must be read with the applicable route, application and restriction provisions; they do not establish that every pension recipient’s relatives receive an award. They do not erase the separately stated competent-veteran route in § 3.452(b)(2). | S002 §§ 3.450–3.454. |
| R076-P1-C027 | § 3.455(a) requires apportionment of a surviving spouse’s DIC for the stated child/incarceration situation and refers the amount to § 3.665. | It says child under 18, and disallows apportionment for a child over age 18 unless permanently incapable of self-support under § 3.57. School attendance alone is not that exception. Exact boundary/application facts are not supplied. | S002 § 3.455(a)–(b); S004 §§ 101(4)(A), 104. |
Claim ID · Supported proposition · Conditions, qualifications and limits · 21 data rows
| Claim ID | Supported proposition | Conditions, qualifications and limits | Exact evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-C028 | Former § 3.450 included the separated-spouse/noncustodial-child route where the veteran was not reasonably discharging support responsibility. | That former route did not contain the separate special-hardship test. It is historical text, not the current § 3.451 new-claim test. Former § 3.450 also contained support, custody, equal-division and relationship-development qualifications. | S007 former § 3.450(a)–(g); S005 replacement instructions. |
| R076-P1-C029 | Former § 3.451 allowed special apportionment where hardship was shown, on the individual facts, without undue hardship to other persons in interest. | It considered benefit amounts, other resources/income, and special needs, and was subject to former § 3.458(b)–(c). Those were legal categories, not a financial assessment performed here. | S007 former § 3.451, complete. |
| R076-P1-C030 | Former § 3.451 said ordinarily more than 50% of the veteran’s benefits would cause undue hardship and less than 20% would not provide a reasonable amount. | Denominator: the veteran’s benefits. Strict “more than”/“less than,” qualified by “ordinarily”; neither a guaranteed 20% minimum nor absolute 50% maximum. Historical, not the current new-claim rule. | S007 former § 3.451; S005. |
| R076-P1-C031 | Former § 3.458 contained additional restrictions, including relationship/conduct and adopted-out-child provisions, with qualifications. | The 2026 rule removed and reserved §§ 3.458–3.461. An old restriction cannot be silently carried into a new claim merely because another regulation retains an obsolete cross-reference. | S007 former § 3.458; S005 instruction 13; S002 reserved range. |
| R076-P1-C032 | Current § 101(3) defines surviving spouse by spouse-at-death, continuous-cohabitation qualifications and no-remarriage language, subject to its chapter exception and other statutory qualifications. | P.L. 118-210 § 303 removed the earlier opposite-sex and holding-out formulation from this definition. The full effect of other remarriage provisions is not determined by § 101(3) alone. | S004 § 101(3); S008 § 303; S004 § 103(d). |
| R076-P1-C033 | Displayed § 3.50 retains older opposite-sex and holding-out wording; § 101(31) also retains opposite-sex spouse wording, while VA’s public instruction says it recognizes same-sex marriages. | These are identified source differences. No judicial invalidation, complete implementation history or actual marital entitlement is asserted. | S002 § 3.50; S004 § 101(31); S009. |
| R076-P1-C034 | Marriage validity, deemed-valid marriage and continuous cohabitation have distinct statutory/regulatory predicates. | § 103(c)/§ 3.1(j) use residence-based governing law. § 103(a)/§ 3.52 require the stated lack of knowledge of an impediment, duration-or-child condition, cohabitation and absence of a qualifying competing legal-spouse claim. § 3.53 addresses separation and temporary absences. Full remarriage restoration remains held. | S004 § 103(a)–(e); S002 §§ 3.1(j), 3.52–3.53. |
| R076-P1-C035 | The basic child definition requires unmarried status and one of three age/capacity/education alternatives. | Under 18; permanently incapable of self-support before 18; or approved education after 18 and before 23, until completion. Chapter 19 and § 8502(b) exceptions are expressly preserved. Marriage-related statutory exceptions are not erased. | S004 § 101(4)(A), § 103(e); S002 § 3.57(a). |
| R076-P1-C036 | Legal relationship is an additional child predicate, not a substitute for age/capacity/education. | Statutory categories include legitimate, legally adopted, qualifying household stepchild, and illegitimate child with the specified paternal acknowledgment, support/filiation judgment or satisfactory-evidence alternatives. Regulatory adoption/stepchild age rules have their own exceptions. | S004 § 101(4)(A); S002 § 3.57(a)–(c). |
| R076-P1-C037 | Post-death adoption has specific household, timing and outside-support limitations. | The statute says adoption by the surviving spouse before Aug. 26, 1961 or within two years after death, with its regular-contribution exclusion. § 3.57(c) uses a different historical date formulation and a major-support formulation. Their complete historical reconciliation is unresolved. | S004 § 101(4)(A), post-death adoption sentence; S002 § 3.57(c). |
| R076-P1-C038 | Interlocutory adoption and authorized placement are recognized only while the specified custody and unrescinded/unterminated arrangement continue. | A child incapable of self-support before 18, in the household at 18, may qualify under the special later-adoption provision regardless of age at adoption. No actual placement or adoption is inferred. | S004 § 101(4)(A), final sentences; S002 § 3.57(a)(3), (c). |
| R076-P1-C039 | Foreign-adoption recognition has cumulative age, support, custody and residence conditions, plus separate death-related alternatives. | Adoption before 18; at least half of annual support from the veteran; natural-parent custody exclusion with spouse exception; residence requirement with stated school/institution/divorce exceptions. At death, the specified prior dependent allowance or at-least-one-year satisfaction alternative applies. Geographic and specialized-service cross-references remain bounded. | S004 § 101(4)(B), § 101(20); S002 § 3.57(e). |
| R076-P1-C040 | § 3.57(d)’s custody definition is expressly for improved-pension §§ 3.23–3.24. | It addresses legal control/care, residence presumptions, support obligations, divestment, stepparent joint custody, continuity after 18 and successor custody. It is not a universal domestic-relations custody rule. | S002 § 3.57(d), complete. |
| R076-P1-C041 | Adoption out of the veteran’s family does not categorically eliminate the child’s own VA-benefit status. | § 3.58 distinguishes those benefits from additional dependent compensation under § 1115. Its obsolete § 3.458 cross-reference does not restore a removed rule. | S002 §§ 3.57(a)(4), 3.58; S005 instruction 13. |
| R076-P1-C042 | Permanent incapacity for self-support under § 3.356 is evaluated at the relevant age and on the stated evidentiary factors. | Earning support, continuity of cause, temporary/casual work, daily activities, reasons for lack of employment and sympathetic employment are distinct considerations. A diagnosis, unemployment or a disability label alone is not the finding. | S002 § 3.356(a)–(b), complete. |
| R076-P1-C043 | Parent status includes natural/adoptive parents and the specified sustained parental relationship before service. | Statute requires at least one year for the latter relationship; regulation adds commencement before the veteran’s 21st birthday and recognition of no more than one father and one mother, with the last qualifying relationship rule. | S004 § 101(5); S002 § 3.59. |
| R076-P1-C044 | Parent dependency is a separate financial/legal category under § 102 and § 3.250. | Nonforeign conclusive monthly-income thresholds are $400, $660 and an additional $185 per qualifying family member as specified. Above-threshold and foreign cases require factual evaluation; reasonable maintenance, estate availability, family responsibility and remarried-household conditions matter. These are not universal benefit rates or a completed means test. | S004 § 102; S002 § 3.250(a)–(d), complete. |
| R076-P1-C045 | Compensation, DIC and pension are separately defined payment categories. | Compensation and DIC definitions distinguish service-connected disability/death and the statutory 1956/1957 death-date division/election; pension concerns the specified service, age, nonservice-connected disability or death basis. No basic entitlement follows merely from the category name. | S004 § 101(13)–(17). |
| R076-P1-C046 | Veteran, active service and qualifying care are legal categories with incorporated definitions. | § 101(2) includes active military/naval/air/space service and other-than-dishonorable release; the complete service regime remains held. Nursing-home and hospitalization definitions are not every residence or care arrangement. | S004 § 101(2), (21)–(24), (28); S002 § 3.1(d), (z), § 3.551(a). |
| R076-P1-C047 | § 3.353 defines incompetency by injury/disease-related lack of mental capacity to contract or manage affairs, including unrestricted disbursement of funds. | It assigns decision roles, requires the stated evidentiary basis, favors competency when reasonable doubt arises, and provides notice/hearing qualifications. No diagnosis or institutional admission automatically satisfies it. | S002 § 3.353(a)–(e), complete. |
| R076-P1-C048 | Payment through a fiduciary and apportionment to dependents are distinct statutory mechanisms. | § 5502(a)(1) concerns payment in the beneficiary’s interest; § 5502(d) permits specified temporary arrangements or discretionary apportionment while fiduciary matters are pending. Neither establishes negotiation authority or private debt release. | S010 § 5502(a)(1), (d); S002 § 3.452. |
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| Claim ID | Supported proposition | Conditions, qualifications and limits | Exact evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-C049 | § 5503(a)(1) limits the specified VA-furnished domiciliary/nursing-home pension to $90 monthly after the third full calendar month following the admission month. | It has no-spouse/no-child conditions, a six-month readmission rule, rehabilitation exceptions, and extension findings. Subsection (a)(2) extends the framework to the stated married § 1521(b) situation. Subsection (b) preserves the Hansen’s-disease exception. | S011 § 5503(a)(1)–(2), (b). |
| R076-P1-C050 | § 3.551(c) states a $50 section 306 limit after the second full calendar month, with its six-month readmission condition. | It covers the stated no-dependent-rate categories. Displayed § 3.501(i)(2)(ii) instead uses a third-month hospital/nursing-home formulation. That timing discrepancy is not resolved here. | S002 § 3.551(c), § 3.501(i)(2). |
| R076-P1-C051 | Institutional timing and dependency rules contain material exceptions. | § 3.551(e) distinguishes hospital care, transfers, six-month intervals and the § 1522(b) child-estate exception; (f) has a limited 96-hour/60-day/90-day computation rule only for (c); (g) addresses proof of dependents; (h) requires specified rehabilitation certification. | S002 § 3.551(e)–(h); S012 § 1522(b). |
| R076-P1-C052 | Some displayed cross-references no longer point to the former substantive provision. | §§ 3.551(c)(3), (e)(3) still point to § 3.454(b), now survivors pension; §§ 3.57–3.58 retain references to now-reserved § 3.458. These were not automatically rewritten in this report. | S002 cited clauses; S005 instructions 10, 13. |
| R076-P1-C053 | The hypothetical § 1521(c)/(e) amount in § 3.452 is not a demonstrated current payable amount. | Underlying service, disability, marital/support, income, estate and adjusted-rate predicates remain absent. “Living with” for § 1521 may include separate residence unless estranged; it is not a universal cohabitation definition. | S012 § 1521, § 1522; S002 §§ 3.23(d)(1), 3.60. |
| R076-P1-C054 | Compensation/DIC incarceration restrictions depend on the specified felony conviction, facility, duration and application categories. | § 5313 and § 3.665 use more than 60 days and the 61st-day framework; § 3.665’s felony definition includes punishment exceeding one year unless the jurisdiction classifies the offense as a misdemeanor. No actual criminal status is inferred. | S013 § 5313; S002 § 3.665(a)–(c). |
| R076-P1-C055 | The incarceration framework contains historical applicability categories, including the later extension to specified pre-1980 incarcerations continuing at the 2001 enactment. | The precise October 1980 categories and P.L. 107-103 § 506’s 90-day/month-start application rule are retained in the measurement register. They are not replaced by a generic “all incarceration” rule. | S013 § 5313(d); S002 § 3.665(c); S024 § 506. |
| R076-P1-C056 | The retained-payment rule distinguishes disability evaluations of at least 20% from those below 20%, and specified survivor beneficiaries. | The reference amount is the § 1114(a) rate or one-half of that rate. It is not 20% or 50% of an actual award. The current dollar base was not authenticated because S029 failed. | S013 § 5313(a); S002 § 3.665(d); S029 failure. |
| R076-P1-C057 | Current § 3.665(e) permits apportionment of the compensation or DIC not paid because of the specified incarceration. | Compensation recipients: spouse, children in equal shares, or dependent parents in equal shares. DIC recipient configurations differ for an incarcerated surviving spouse/child. No universal division across all categories is stated. | S002 § 3.665(e)(1)–(2); S005 instruction 15. |
| R076-P1-C058 | An incarcerated felony recipient is independently restricted, and release includes specified work-release/halfway-house situations. | The recipient prohibition is not supplied with a separate 60-day waiting period in § 3.665(g). Applicable facility wording must also be checked against the later statute. | S013 § 5313(a)–(b); S002 § 3.665(b), (g)–(h). |
| R076-P1-C059 | Retroactive apportionment under § 3.665(f) requires both timely claim/intent and timely necessary evidence. | Claim/intent within one year after the specified notice to the incarcerated person; evidence within one year of VA’s request; subject to overlapping payments. Otherwise the new claim/intent receipt boundary applies. | S002 § 3.665(f), § 3.155(b). |
| R076-P1-C060 | Release-related resumption and discontinuance have separate notice and prior-payment rules. | Without an apportionment, notice within one year preserves the release-date rule; otherwise receipt controls. With an apportionment, last-payment and interim-difference provisions apply. No amount or date is computed. | S002 § 3.665(h)–(i). |
| R076-P1-C061 | Increases, reversal of conviction and continued parent apportionment have express qualifications. | § 3.665(j) distinguishes statutory increases and evaluation changes; (m) restores withheld benefits less apportionments if conviction is overturned; (i)(2) does not continue a parent apportionment after release unless the specified incompetency route applies. | S002 § 3.665(i)(2), (j)–(m). |
| R076-P1-C062 | Pension incarceration rules cover conviction of a felony or misdemeanor, unlike the compensation/DIC felony route. | § 1505 and § 3.666 have distinct wording for the imprisonment trigger; the regulation says the 61st day of imprisonment following conviction. No actual counting event is established. | S013 § 1505(a); S002 § 3.666 introductory text. |
| R076-P1-C063 | Pension payments to family under § 3.666(a) require continued underlying eligibility apart from incarceration and the specified family-income condition. | The rate is the lesser of the hypothetical survivors-pension rate and the pre-imprisonment veteran rate. Survivor-family configurations and income limits are separately addressed in (b). | S002 § 3.666(a)(1)–(3), (b)(1)–(4); S013 § 1505(b)–(c). |
| R076-P1-C064 | Pension commencement/resumption provisions use their own claim, evidence, release-notice and overlapping-payment qualifications. | Disability-pension and survivors-pension routes do not have identical triggers. § 3.666(d)’s compensation-alternative provision is not an automatic family award or an action recommendation. | S002 § 3.666(a)(4), (b)(3), (c)–(d). |
| R076-P1-C065 | Fugitive-felon restrictions are separately defined and can affect both the veteran and a dependent. | Fleeing to avoid specified prosecution/custody and violating qualifying felony probation/parole are separate alternatives; the high-misdemeanor qualification and defined dependent categories matter. No status finding is made. | S013 § 5313B(a)–(c); S002 §§ 3.665(n), 3.666(e); S024 § 505. |
| R076-P1-C066 | Current §§ 1505 and 5313 include “other penal institution or correctional facility” language added in 2006; the displayed regulations retain narrower facility wording. | The later statute cannot be reduced to the older regulatory list. Application to any actual facility remains absent. | S013; S023 § 1002(a), (f); S002 §§ 3.665–3.666. |
| R076-P1-C067 | Fraud forfeiture, historical dependent apportionment and independent survivor benefits are distinct questions. | § 6103 contains the post-September 1, 1959 bar and expressly distinguishes certain survivor entitlement from forfeiture by the veteran. It does not make every relative disqualified for every benefit. | S014 § 6103(a)–(d); S002 §§ 3.900–3.901, 3.904. |
| R076-P1-C068 | Treason forfeiture and conviction-based subversive-activity restrictions have different predicates and consequences. | The selected statutes contain historical qualifications and, for § 6105, a pardon-related provision. The complete criminal and forfeiture-adjudication regimes remain held. | S014 §§ 6104–6105; S002 §§ 3.902–3.904. |
Claim ID · Supported proposition · Conditions, qualifications and limits · 28 data rows
| Claim ID | Supported proposition | Conditions, qualifications and limits | Exact evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| R076-P1-C069 | Current § 3.400(e)(1) generally starts apportionment on the first day of the month after VA receives the claim. | Exceptions: pending primary-beneficiary claim; claimant not yet established as dependent and claim within one year of the primary award; incarceration under §§ 3.665–3.666. The first two use the later of primary-award effective date and apportionment entitlement. | S002 § 3.400(e)(1)–(2); S005 instruction 5. |
| R076-P1-C070 | Apportionment adjustments are excluded from § 3.31’s ordinary next-calendar-month payment-deferral provision. | This avoids automatically adding another month to § 3.400(e). It does not promise processing or deposit on any particular day. | S002 § 3.31(c)(3); S005 instruction 2. |
| R076-P1-C071 | § 3.500(d) generally uses last payment when the reason for apportionment ceases. | For pension apportioned under § 3.551(c), it specifies the day before release unless overpayment would result, then last payment. Other controlling provisions and actual facts remain necessary. | S002 § 3.500 introductory text, (d)(1)–(2). |
| R076-P1-C072 | The displayed § 3.556(e) retains an older continuation/adjustment sentence alongside the new termination wording. | S005 instruction 14 directed removal/revision of sentences. The text/compilation discrepancy is preserved; no continuation permission is inferred from the leftover wording. Temporary absence and release categories also have separate conditions. | S002 § 3.556(a)–(f); S005 instruction 14. ecfr.gov +1 |
| R076-P1-C073 | An intent to file under § 3.155(b) is distinct from a complete prescribed claim. | The one-year completion rule, recognized methods, authorized-actor requirements, one-concurrent-intent rule and non-reset qualification apply. This report creates neither an intent nor a claim. | S002 § 3.155(b)(1)–(6), complete. |
| R076-P1-C074 | § 3.160(a) prescribes completeness requirements; § 3.217(b) imposes conditions before VA acts on oral information. | Required information/signature varies with the prescribed claim. Oral receipt requires authorized staff, identity verification, explanation of use and documentation. No identifying information was requested or entered here. | S002 § 3.160(a)(1)–(6), § 3.217(b)(1)–(2). |
| R076-P1-C075 | General evidence-completion, extension and counting rules are not automatic substitutes for special contested-appeal rules. | § 3.109 has one-year evidence provisions and good-cause extension conditions; § 3.110 excludes the first day, includes the last and addresses nonworkdays, while expressly pointing to separate appeal rules. | S002 §§ 3.109–3.110, complete. |
| R076-P1-C076 | § 3.103 provides decision-notice, hearing and representation protections, with exceptions and stage-specific limits. | Its advance-reduction period has express exceptions; not every apportionment event automatically receives an additional ordinary period. Decision notices identify issues, evidence, law, findings, unmet elements and applicable review options. | S002 § 3.103(a)–(f), complete. |
| R076-P1-C077 | § 5104 specifies decision-notice contents and permits electronic notice on the claimant’s election, revocable at any time. | P.L. 117-168 § 807(b) limits application to Board decisions as stated there. No actual election, issuance or receipt is established. | S015 § 5104; S022 § 807. |
| R076-P1-C078 | A simultaneously contested claim is defined functionally by an allowance causing another claimant’s disallowance or a reduced payment to another claimant. | A generic dispute label is insufficient; the benefit consequences and procedural classification matter. | S016 § 20.3(l). |
| R076-P1-C079 | Modern and legacy review systems have separate applicability rules. | Initial-decision notice on/after Feb. 19, 2019 or a valid election can invoke modernization; older non-elected matters remain legacy. The complete facts and election predicates are absent. | S002 § 3.2400; S017 §§ 19.1–19.2; S018–S021. |
| R076-P1-C080 | For a simultaneously contested claim under § 3.2500(g), the stated administrative review route is a Board appeal within the special period. | Ordinary higher-level-review/supplemental-review options must not be transposed; § 3.2601(a) excludes contested decisions from higher-level review. | S002 §§ 3.2500(g), 3.2601(a). |
| R076-P1-C081 | Current § 7105A(a) requires the contested notice of disagreement within 60 days from issuance of notice; subsection (b) gives other parties 30 days for a brief or argument after communication of its substance. | Prompt notice to interested parties and last-known-address provisions are part of the text. No calendar is computed. | S015 § 7105A(a)–(b); S022 § 807(a)(7). |
| R076-P1-C082 | § 20.402 still describes 60 days from mailing and presumes the letter date is the mailing date; § 3.2500(g) uses issuance. | The 2022 statutory amendment is authenticated. The complete implementation/counting reconciliation, particularly for electronic issuance, remains unresolved. | S016 § 20.402; S002 § 3.2500(g); S015; S022. |
| R076-P1-C083 | Modern contested rules require notice of the adverse action, appeal/hearing/representation rights, and communication of the notice-of-disagreement substance and selected review type. | Other parties receive the stated response opportunity; § 20.405 governs shared review selection; last-address notice and the special treatment of favorable findings are separately stated. | S016 §§ 20.400–20.407, complete. |
| R076-P1-C084 | Legacy contested procedure has its own notice-of-disagreement, substantive-appeal, other-party response and extension rules. | The 60-day, 30-day and good-cause provisions have different triggers. A supplemental statement does not automatically extend the substantive-appeal period. | S017 §§ 19.100–19.102; S016 §§ 20.500–20.505. |
| R076-P1-C085 | Board filing computation includes a postmark rule, a limited presumed-postmark rule and first/last-day conventions. | Good-cause extension clauses have their own conditions; the legacy contested substantive-appeal extension must be requested before expiration. No assumed extension, holiday calculation or actual timeliness conclusion is supplied. | S016 §§ 20.110–20.111, 20.203(c), 20.504. |
| R076-P1-C086 | If a hearing is scheduled in a simultaneous contest, other contesting claimants and representatives must receive notice and an opportunity to attend. | The sequence permits opening, other-party presentation and rebuttal; cross-examination is not allowed. | S016 § 20.711(a). |
| R076-P1-C087 | Contested hearing-date changes have special timing, consent, good-cause and service conditions. | The earlier-of deadline, all-party consent, fixed-date good-cause rule, ordinarily limited postponement, certified-mail proof and actual-receipt response period are distinct predicates. | S016 § 20.711(b)(1)–(3), incorporated § 20.704(c). |
| R076-P1-C088 | The 2026 amendment and later nomenclature change were read in actual amendatory form. | Jan. 9 amendments effective Feb. 9; Jan. 22 nomenclature amendment effective Feb. 23. Publication date is not the application trigger. | S005–S006. |
| R076-P1-C089 | The 2025 surviving-spouse change was verified in the enacted § 303 body. | It supports the specific definition change, not a complete marriage, remarriage or judicial-status determination. | S008; S004 § 101(3). |
| R076-P1-C090 | The 2017 conditional modernization framework was checked against the 2019 final rule, correction and official effective-date notice. | This authenticates the selected transition, not all appeals law or every intervening amendment. | S018–S021. |
| R076-P1-C091 | The 2022 notice amendment and 2006 facility amendments are later statutory changes material to reading older regulations. | Their actual amendatory sections were read; no broader statute-wide conclusion is drawn. | S022 § 807; S023 § 1002. |
| R076-P1-C092 | The 1972 and 1978 selected enactments authenticate the narrow education/pension-history points used here; the 1989 direct reopening remained limited. | No exhaustive historical chain or current adjusted-rate table is established. | S025–S027. |
| R076-P1-C093 | Failed endpoints and incomplete history leave specific propositions unresolved, rather than proving repeal or absence of authority. | This includes the current § 1114(a) dollar base, complete manual transition guidance and some historical alignment. | S026, S028–S029; failure log. |
| R076-P1-C094 | The unavailable manual cannot fill the pre-February 9, 2026 pending-but-unpaid transition issue. | The two explicit clauses in § 3.450 cover new receipts and awards already being paid; they do not, by themselves, complete every intermediate procedural situation. | S002 § 3.450(a)–(b); S028 failure. |
| R076-P1-C095 | This framework governs a VA payment mechanism, not a demonstrated private debt release, attachment exemption, support satisfaction or representation power. | Separate authorities and actual predicates would be needed for each downstream conclusion. This is a scope boundary, not an assertion of the contents of unexamined regimes. | S001; S002 core; S010; downstream table below. |
| R076-P1-C096 | No actual eligibility, hardship, capacity, allocation, effective date, payment, continuation or debt-relief outcome is established. | Every application fact remains absent; no component, parent, operational or publication acceptance is supplied. | Scope of the investigation and the conditions in C005–C095. |
Comparison · Current supported distinction · What remains unresolved · 12 data rows
| Comparison | Current supported distinction | What remains unresolved | Claims/sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic benefit entitlement / apportionment | A pension, compensation or DIC entitlement is antecedent to the question whether part of the payable benefit can be apportioned. | Program eligibility, rate, award and dependent status. | C005–C009, C045, C053; S001, S004, S012. |
| Statutory authorization / current regulatory route | § 5307 remains broadly worded; current §§ 3.451–3.452 identify narrower and specialized routes. | No self-executing award follows from separation, custody or a statutory power alone. | C005–C022; S001–S005. |
| Former general / former special apportionment | Former § 3.450 used nonsupport/custody conditions; former § 3.451 added hardship and competing-hardship analysis. | Those historical formulations are not the current new-claim tests. | C028–C031; S007, S005. |
| Current institutional / current incarceration route | Institutional provisions concern qualifying care, capacity/fiduciary status or specified competent-married pension reductions. Incarceration provisions depend on benefit-specific statutory and regulatory conditions. | Actual care, legal capacity, conviction, facility and period. | C013–C022, C049–C066. |
| Claimant hardship / hardship to another party | § 5503(a)(2) retains affirmative spouse hardship. Former § 3.451 addressed both claimant hardship and undue hardship to others. | No current universal competing-hardship formula is established from those texts. | C022, C029–C030. |
| Resources and necessities / protected funds | Former special-apportionment factors and current parent-dependency maintenance factors are evaluative categories. | They do not themselves establish exemption, ownership, garnishment immunity or protected-after-deposit status. | C029, C044, C095. |
| Separate residence / pension “living with” | § 5307 uses residence/custody language; § 3.60 has a limited pension definition that can treat spouses living apart as living together unless estranged. | No universal family-law or all-program cohabitation rule. | C006, C034, C040, C053. |
| Additional dependent amount / child’s own benefit / apportioned amount | These are not interchangeable; adopted-out-child treatment illustrates the distinction. | § 1115 eligibility and any actual award remain held. | C035–C041, C053. |
| Discretion / mandatory restriction | “May” appears in principal authorizations; “will not” states restrictions; §§ 3.454–3.455 use “will” within the applicable framework. | No isolated verb supplies missing predicates or an adjudication. | C013–C027. |
| Percentage benchmark / amount payable | Former 20%/50% statements were qualified historical benchmarks. Current institutional amounts use stated dollar bases/differences; incarceration uses withheld amounts and referenced retained-payment rates. | No universal percentage, current § 1114 dollar base or actual allocation. | C020–C022, C030, C056–C057. |
| Existing award / new claim | § 3.450 distinguishes an apportionment already being paid on Feb. 9, 2026 from a claim received on/after that date. | Pending-before-date but unpaid transition requires more verified authority. | C010–C011, C094. |
| Surviving-spouse award / independent survivor entitlement | Current child apportionment from a surviving spouse requires the stated incarceration/residence conditions; independent survivor entitlement is a different question. | Death benefits, remarriage exceptions and all other survivor eligibility remain held. | C007, C015, C027, C032–C034, C067. |
Issue · Supported boundary · Precise next public-law authority if separately authorized · 10 data rows
| Issue | Supported boundary | Precise next public-law authority if separately authorized | Present result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Request / claim / decision / payment | Prescribed claim and completeness rules do not constitute approval; an effective-date rule does not promise a deposit date. | §§ 3.450(c), 3.155(b), 3.160(a), 3.400(e), 3.31(c)(3). | C012, C069–C074; actual stages absent. |
| Ordinary / contested review | Functional contested classification invokes special rules; ordinary review periods/options cannot simply be copied. | § 7105A; §§ 3.2500(g), 20.3(l), 20.400–20.407 or legacy §§ 19.100–19.102, 20.500–20.505. | C078–C085. |
| Notice issuance / mailing / actual receipt | Different clauses use different events; the statute/regulation mismatch is explicit. | P.L. 117-168 § 807; §§ 5104, 7105A; current implementing notice/counting provisions. | C077, C081–C082; no deadline computed. |
| Apportionment / fiduciary payment | Separate mechanisms are expressly present in § 5502. | § 5502; 38 CFR Part 13, especially the referenced §§ 13.100, 13.110. | C018–C019, C047–C048; full fiduciary administration held. |
| Assignment or attachment / VA apportionment | Selected apportionment authority does not decide assignability or legal process against benefits. | 38 U.S.C. § 5301; any genuinely applicable federal support-process statute and its definitions. | Unexamined next component; no exemption or attachment conclusion. |
| Support enforcement / apportionment | A VA award is not proof that a support obligation or order is satisfied. | Relevant generic support jurisdiction and, only if necessary, 42 U.S.C. §§ 659, 662 and applicable implementing provisions. | No order, arrears, enforcement or jurisdiction examined. |
| Divorce property division / apportionment | No property-division result follows from the selected payment provisions. | Applicable public domestic-relations law and any indispensable federal benefits limitation. | Entire issue held. |
| Overpayment recovery or waiver / apportionment adjustment | Prior-payment and overpayment-avoidance clauses do not decide a recovery debt or waiver. | 38 U.S.C. §§ 5314, 5302; 38 CFR §§ 1.911, 1.962–1.965, only in a separately bounded inquiry. | No overpayment, offset or waiver finding. |
| Protected funds after deposit / evaluation of resources | Resource or maintenance factors do not establish account-level protection. | § 5301 and any actually applicable garnishment/account-protection regime. | No account, tracing or protection calculation. |
| Debt release, tax, credit or bankruptcy | None is settled by an apportionment category or percentage. | The precise separate statutory regime corresponding to the proposed legal question. | Excluded parent dimensions; no operational conclusion. |
Measurement ID · Quantity; exact authority · Actor/object and base/unit · 27 data rows
| Measurement ID | Quantity; exact authority | Actor/object and base/unit | Trigger, boundary, qualifications and missing facts |
|---|---|---|---|
| M01 | Feb. 9, 2026 — § 3.450(a)–(b), S005 dates | Claim receipt; existing apportionment payment status | New provisions: received on or after date. Continuation: being paid as of date. Pending-but-unpaid transition unresolved. C010–C011, C094. |
| M02 | Feb. 23, 2026 — S006 dates/instruction 8 | Nomenclature amendment | Effective date of “survivors pension” terminology change; not an individual award date. C088. |
| M03 | Under 18; incapacity before 18; education after 18 and before 23 — § 101(4)(A), § 3.57(a) | Child’s age in years | Unmarried status and qualifying relationship cumulative; education ends on completion and not after attaining 23. Specialized exceptions preserved. C035–C038. |
| M04 | Under 18 / over age 18 — § 3.455(a) | Child receiving apportionment of surviving spouse’s DIC | Incarcerated-spouse conditions cumulative; over-18 exception is permanent incapacity, not school attendance alone. No exact-age application inferred. C027. |
| M05 | Before Aug. 26, 1961 or within 2 years after death — § 101(4)(A) | Post-death adoption | Household-at-death and outside-support conditions cumulative. Regulatory historical formulation differs; no calendar calculation. C037. |
| M06 | Two-year formulation tied to Aug. 25, 1959 or death, whichever later — § 3.57(c) | Regulatory post-death adoption condition | Preserved separately from M05; complete historical alignment unresolved. C037. |
| M07 | Adoption before 18; at least one-half annual support — § 101(4)(B)(i), § 3.57(e) | Foreign-adopted child; numerator veteran’s annual support contribution / denominator child’s annual support | At least half is inclusive; custody and residence conditions plus express exceptions cumulative. No support amount supplied. C039. |
| M08 | Within preceding 1 year / at least 1 year before death — § 101(4)(B)(ii) | Foreign-adoption death-status alternatives | Prior receipt/entitlement to dependent allowance is one alternative; sustained compliance is another. Not interchangeable. C039. |
| M09 | At least 1 year; before 21; no more than one father and one mother — § 101(5), § 3.59 | Parental relationship | Statutory relationship before service; regulatory commencement before 21; last qualifying relationship rule. C043. |
| M10 | $400, $660, plus $185 per qualifying additional family member per month — § 3.250(a)(1) | Parent-dependency income thresholds | Applies to specified nonforeign household configurations; income does not exceed threshold. Above-threshold and estate/family qualifications remain; not benefit amounts. C044. |
| M11 | At least 1 year immediately before death, or any duration with qualifying child — § 103(a), § 3.52 | Deemed-valid marriage duration alternative | Lack of knowledge, cohabitation and competing-spouse conditions also required. No actual relationship supplied. C034. |
| M12 | Before Jan. 1, 1957 / after Dec. 31, 1956; monthly payments — § 101(13)–(15) | Compensation/DIC category distinction | DIC includes the stated election alternative for an earlier service-connected death. No death date or entitlement found. C045. |
| M13 | More than 50%; less than 20% — former § 3.451 | Historical proportion of veteran’s benefits | Strict comparisons; ordinarily, not universal limits; other hardship factors and historical exceptions cumulative. C030. |
| M14 | $50 monthly; Dec. 31, 1978 reference amount — § 3.452(b)(2)(i) | Section 306 spouse apportionment comparison | Generally the difference from the specified pension reference; competent married veteran, qualifying care and reduction required. C020. |
| M15 | $90 monthly — § 3.452(b)(2)(ii), § 5503(a)(2) | Improved-pension retained amount compared with hypothetical § 1521(c)/(e) amount | “Generally” regulatory amount; statute permits all or part and requires affirmative hardship. No current hypothetical rate established. C021–C022. |
| M16 | Third full calendar month following admission month — § 5503(a)(1)(A)–(B), § 3.551(e)(1) | Specified domiciliary/nursing-home pension reduction | After end of third full calendar month; admission month is separately identified. No day conversion. Family/rate conditions and exceptions cumulative. C049, C051. |
| M17 | Within 6 months — § 5503(a)(1)(C), § 3.551(e)(2) | Readmission after qualifying reduced-care period | Reduction for period after readmission month under stated conditions; not a general six-month eligibility rule. C049–C051. |
| M18 | Up to 3 additional calendar months; further necessary calendar months — § 5503(a)(1)(D), § 3.551(h) | Rehabilitation-based delay | Prescribed rehabilitation purpose and official findings/certification required; regulatory admission condition after Oct. 16, 1981. No medical or program finding. C049, C051. |
| M19 | Second full calendar month versus third calendar month for hospital/nursing care — §§ 3.551(c)(1), 3.501(i)(2)(ii) | Section 306 reduction timing | Displayed provisions differ. No operational choice or computed reduction date. C050. |
| M20 | Within 6 months — § 3.551(c)(2) | Section 306 readmission | Applies after the specified prior reduced-care period; period after readmission month. C050. |
| M21 | 96 hours or less / over 96 hours; 60 total days = 2 calendar months; 90 total days = 3 — § 3.551(f) | Special hospitalization computation for paragraph (c) | Authorized absences over 96 hours excluded. This conversion is not generalized to improved pension, appeals or other periods. C051. |
| M22 | Hospital period not exceeding 6 months / exceeding 6 months — § 3.551(e)(4) | Transfers between qualifying care and hospital care | Different continuity/termination outcomes; direct hospital-to-care time and death-while-hospitalized qualifications preserved. C051. |
| M23 | Feb. 1, 1990 — § 3.551(e)(5) | Improved-pension hospital reduction boundary | Hospital reductions cease under the stated provision except § 3.552; separate aid-and-attendance regime held. C051, C092. |
| M24 | 60 days after request for old-law category; before reduction for section 306; within 1 year after request — § 3.551(g) | Proof of dependents | Different clauses, not one uniform period. Prima-facie showing and full-rate restoration qualifications matter. C051. |
| M25 | 30 days or more / less than 30 days; more than 6 months; absences exceeding 30 total days; 6 months after termination — § 3.556(a)–(d) | Temporary absence, need-based restoration and irregular-release withholding | Separate program/competency/request conditions. Less-than-30-day clause expressly includes departure day. Not a general apportionment extension. C072. |
| M26 | Day preceding release / date of last payment — § 3.500(d)(2), amended § 3.556(e) | Section 306 apportionment discontinuance | Last-payment alternative prevents overpayment; compilation mismatch in § 3.556(e) retained. C071–C072. |
| M27 | June 30, 1960; Dec. 31, 1978; Jan. 1, 1979 — § 3.1(u)–(w), S027 § 401 | Old-law, section 306 and improved-pension program vintages | Program definitions/application dates, not a current person’s enrollment or payment history. C020, C045, C092. |
Measurement ID · Quantity; authority · Actor/object and base/unit · 17 data rows
| Measurement ID | Quantity; authority | Actor/object and base/unit | Trigger, boundary, qualifications and missing facts |
|---|---|---|---|
| M28 | More than 60 days; 61st-day framework — § 5313(a), § 3.665(a) | Compensation/DIC incarceration restriction | Qualifying conviction, facility and applicability categories required. Not a filing period or holiday-adjusted calendar model. C054. |
| M29 | Punishable by more than 1 year — § 3.665(b) | Regulatory felony definition | Jurisdictional misdemeanor exception preserved; statutory fugitive definition is separate. C054, C065. |
| M30 | 20% or more / less than 20%; one-half of § 1114(a) rate — § 5313(a), § 3.665(d) | Disability evaluation and retained payment | Evaluation percentage is not a share of total benefits. Current dollar reference unavailable. C056. |
| M31 | After Oct. 7, 1980; after Sept. 30, 1980 with Oct. 1 incarceration and later award conditions — § 3.665(c)(1)–(2) | Historical applicability | Distinct alternatives; do not merge offense date, incarceration date and award-approval date. C055. |
| M32 | Oct. 7, 1980 / Dec. 27, 2001; months beginning after the specified 90-day period — § 3.665(c)(3), S024 § 506 | Extension to specified older felony incarceration | Continuing incarceration and other stated conditions cumulative; no computed effective calendar date. C055. |
| M33 | Equal shares — §§ 3.451(c), 3.665(e) | Eligible children, or dependent parents within the stated allocation category | Denominator is the eligible recipients in the particular category; no actual count or cross-category allocation invented. C017, C057. |
| M34 | Within 1 year after notice; within 1 year of evidence request — § 3.665(f) | Claim/intent and necessary evidence | Both conditions required for stated retroactive boundary; overlapping payments also matter. C059. |
| M35 | Within 1 year following release — § 3.665(i)(1) | Notice of release where no apportionment existed | Timely notice supports release-date resumption; otherwise notice receipt date. Different rules where apportionment existed. C060. |
| M36 | 10% increased to at least 20%; already at least 20% — § 3.665(j) | Nonstatutory compensation increase during incarceration | Different retained-payment treatment; historical approval/effective-date qualifications retained. C061. |
| M37 | 61st day of imprisonment following conviction — § 3.666 introductory text | Pension following felony or misdemeanor conviction | Statutory § 1505 wording separately preserved; no actual conviction/imprisonment date or count. C062. |
| M38 | Lesser of two rates — § 3.666(a)(3) | Hypothetical survivors-pension rate versus pre-imprisonment veteran pension rate | Both must be legally established on a consistent payment-period basis. No rates supplied or computation performed. C063. |
| M39 | Day after discontinuance; separate one-year claim/evidence periods — § 3.666(a)(4), (b)(3) | Pension-family payment commencement | Disability-pension and survivors-pension clauses differ; overlapping payments and income evidence matter. C064. |
| M40 | One year after release; last-payment adjustment — § 3.666(c) | Pension resumption | Release notice, continuing entitlement and any existing apportionment determine route; no automatic payment finding. C064. |
| M41 | After Sept. 1, 1959 / historical pre-Sept. 2 awards — § 3.453(c), §§ 6103–6105, §§ 3.900–3.904 | Forfeiture/subversive restrictions | Actor, ground, historical authorization and independent survivor rights differ. C025, C067–C068. |
| M42 | First day of month after receipt — § 3.400(e)(1) | General apportionment effective date | Subject to all three exception categories; not date of actual processing or deposit. C069. |
| M43 | Within 1 year of primary-beneficiary award; later of two dates — § 3.400(e)(2)(i)–(ii) | Pending award/unestablished-dependent exceptions | Text says award, not an invented notice trigger. Entitlement date and primary-award effective date remain absent. C069. |
| M44 | No additional ordinary next-month deferral for listed adjustment — § 3.31(c)(3) | Apportionment adjustment | Exclusion from the general rule, not a guaranteed payment schedule. C070. |
Measurement ID · Quantity; authority · Actor/object and unit · 19 data rows
| Measurement ID | Quantity; authority | Actor/object and unit | Trigger, qualifications, counting and missing facts |
|---|---|---|---|
| M45 | Within 1 year; one concurrent intent per benefit — § 3.155(b) | Intent-to-file completion and concurrency | Complete prescribed claim after qualifying intent; authorized method/actor and non-reset conditions. No intent or claim created. C073. |
| M46 | 1 year after notification/request — § 3.109(a) | Missing application/substantiation evidence | Distinct completeness/authenticity clauses; additional enlarged proofs not automatically included. C075. |
| M47 | 60-day advance period; 30-day restoration-response provision — § 3.103(b) | Certain adverse actions | Express exceptions in (b)(3), and special (b)(4) conditions, prevent treating these as universal contested-claim periods. C076. |
| M48 | Feb. 19, 2019; qualifying election provisions — §§ 3.2400, 19.2; S021 | Modern versus legacy classification | Initial-decision notice and valid election status matter. Regulatory early-election date Nov. 1, 2017 is a program transition reference, not current automatic eligibility. C079–C080. |
| M49 | 60 days from issuance — § 7105A(a), § 3.2500(g) | Contested notice of disagreement | Special period; current statute uses issuance. Actual notice/election/delivery facts absent. C081–C082. |
| M50 | 60 days from mailing; letter-date presumption — § 20.402 | Displayed Board contested rule | Preserved separately from M49; implementation alignment unresolved. C082. |
| M51 | 30 days after communication/furnishing — § 7105A(b), § 20.404 | Other-party brief/argument and review-type response | Not the initial appeal period; letter-date presumption appears in regulation. C081, C083. |
| M52 | 90 days after the applicable Board notice — § 20.405 | Additional evidence when the specified contested review option applies | Shared review-selection conditions must be met; not every contested matter automatically receives this period. C083. |
| M53 | Legacy 60-day NOD; 30-day substantive appeal; 30-day other-party response — §§ 20.501–20.503 | Different legacy procedural acts | Distinct mailing/furnishing events; supplemental statement does not automatically extend substantive appeal. C084. |
| M54 | Postmark before expiration; missing-postmark presumption 5 days before receipt — § 20.110(a) | Board filing timeliness | Presumed five-day computation excludes Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays; not proof of actual mailing or applicable to every VA act. C085. |
| M55 | Exclude first day, include last; next workday where applicable — §§ 3.110, 20.110(b)–20.111 | Specified filing/action periods | Separate regulatory scopes; current statutory issuance mismatch remains. No actual holiday calendar constructed. C075, C085. |
| M56 | Before expiration / good cause — § 20.504; § 20.203(c); § 3.109(b) | Extensions | Legacy contested substantive-appeal request must precede expiration; other good-cause clauses have distinct requirements. No automatic extension. C075, C085. |
| M57 | Within 60 days of hearing-notice letter or no later than 2 weeks before hearing, whichever earlier — § 20.711(b)(2)(i) | Contested hearing-date change request | All-party consent and incorporated written/good-cause conditions also matter. No actual hearing date. C087. |
| M58 | Ordinarily no more than 30 days — § 20.711(b)(2)(ii) | Hearing postponement | Qualified by good cause and presiding-member determination; not an unconditional extension. C087. |
| M59 | 10 days from actual receipt of motion copy — § 20.711(b)(3) | Other interested party’s written response | Certified-mail/return-receipt service and proof requirements are expressly stated; no receipt inferred. C087. |
| M60 | 90 days after enactment — S025 § 601(b) | 1972 § 505 amendment | Enactment Oct. 24, 1972; no derived calendar date or current education entitlement. C008, C092. |
| M61 | Jan. 1, 1979 — S027 § 401 | Selected 1978 pension enactment | Historical application date; program-preservation conditions remain distinct. C092. |
| M62 | Later of 540 days after enactment or 30 days after prescribed certification — S018 § 2(x) | Appeals modernization transition | Conditions and early-election provisions read; S021 separately states the actual Feb. 19, 2019 effective date. No independent calendar arithmetic. C090. |
| M63 | Jan. 2, 2025; Aug. 10, 2022; Dec. 22, 2006 — S008, S022, S023 | Enactment dates for material definition/notice/facility changes | Actual amendatory sections read; no separate delayed effective clause found within the selected sections. Not a complete Act-wide later-history conclusion. C089, C091. |
Branch; coverage · Supported conditional rule and exact claims/sources · Missing authority or predicate · 32 data rows
| Branch; coverage | Supported conditional rule and exact claims/sources | Missing authority or predicate | Adverse inference to avoid | Next permissible generic public-law inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B01 — Program/type unknown. Partial. | Identify the benefit before selecting § 5307 or §§ 3.451–3.455; pension, compensation, DIC and education references differ. C005–C008, C045; S001, S002, S004. | Benefit category and governing program. | Every VA or military payment is apportionable alike. | Read only the public eligibility/payment provision for the relevant generic program category. |
| B02 — Underlying entitlement unknown. Unresolved application. | Apportionment concerns otherwise payable benefits; it does not establish primary entitlement. C005, C021, C053. | Entitlement, payable rate and award basis. | An eligible relative creates the primary benefit. | Examine the corresponding generic chapter 11, 13 or 15 entitlement clause; actual evidence remains held. |
| B03 — Claimant category unknown. Partial. | Spouse, child and dependent-parent routes differ; parent apportionment in § 3.451 is compensation-only. C013, C019, C043–C044; S002, S004. | Qualifying legal relationship and dependency. | Any family member or support recipient qualifies. | §§ 101(3)–(5), 102–103 and the specific § 3.57/3.59/3.250 clause. |
| B04 — Spouse-definition alignment. Partial. | Current § 101(3), older § 3.50 and official marriage instruction must be distinguished. C032–C034, C089. | Complete later implementation and applicable marriage law. | Older opposite-sex wording proves present exclusion, or a generic policy proves individual entitlement. | Public implementation of P.L. 118-210 § 303 and narrow § 103(c) marriage rules; no party or opinion query. |
| B05 — Child age/relationship unknown. Partial. | Unmarried status, relationship and one age/capacity/education alternative are cumulative. C035–C039; S004, S002. | Category, school approval, adoption/placement/capacity predicates. | Every adult child or student qualifies for every apportionment route. | § 101(4), § 104 and the precise § 3.57 subdivision; retain § 3.455’s narrower condition. |
| B06 — Living arrangement/custody unknown. Partial. | Current surviving-spouse route requires nonresidence caused by incarceration and prior residence; pension custody definitions have limited scope. C015, C040, C053. | Legal custody, residence history and applicable program. | Separate addresses alone prove legal custody or entitlement. | §§ 3.451(a)(2), 3.57(d), 3.60, without a household or custody-record inquiry. |
| B07 — Support-contribution predicate. Answered boundary. | Former nonsupport route is historical; support still matters in specified pension/dependency definitions. C028, C044, C053. | Applicable current route and legal definition. | Nonsupport alone establishes a new 2026 apportionment. | Compare current §§ 3.451–3.452 with §§ 3.23(d)(1), 3.250 and the historical text only where transition is established. |
| B08 — General versus special route. Answered with transition limit. | Old general/special categories were replaced for current new receipts; existing paid awards have a continuation clause. C010–C011, C028–C031, C094. | Claim/payment status at transition; pending-claim rule. | Familiar former labels remain current operative sections. | Official public transition instructions implementing § 3.450(a)–(b); failed manual cannot fill the gap. |
| B09 — Best-interest/fiduciary standard. Partial. | § 5502’s beneficiary-interest payment authority is distinct from dependent apportionment. C018, C048. | Appointment authority and applicable route. | An apportionee is automatically a fiduciary or negotiator. | § 5502 and the narrowly referenced Part 13 appointment clauses. |
| B10 — Current hardship predicate. Answered rule; application unresolved. | § 5503(a)(2) requires affirmative hardship plus the specified care, marriage and § 1521(b) conditions. C021–C022. | Every qualifying fact and actual authorized determination. | The 2026 rule eliminated all hardship requirements. | Current § 5503(a)(2) implementation and reconciliation with § 3.452(b)(2)(ii). |
| B11 — Competing hardship. Historical boundary answered. | Former § 3.451 prohibited undue hardship to others; that is not a universal current new-claim balancing formula. C029–C030. | Whether a preserved historical award requires that analysis. | One claimant’s hardship automatically defeats or guarantees another’s payment. | Verified transition/continuation instructions and the exact retained-award authority. |
| B12 — Resources/special needs. Answered boundary. | Historical special-apportionment and current parent-dependency factors have different functions. C029, C044. | Applicable route, legal income/estate treatment and facts. | “Needs” establishes exempt funds or an affordable allocation. | The exact § 3.250 income/estate cross-reference or authenticated historical continuation rule. |
| B13 — Percentage denominator. Answered. | Former >50%/<20% statements were ordinary benchmarks measured against veteran benefits. C030; M13. | No current applicability or actual denominator. | A guaranteed 20% award or absolute 50% cap. | Current § 3.452 or § 3.665 amount clause, depending on route; do not recycle historical percentages. |
| B14 — Institutional/capacity category. Partial. | Incompetent-without-fiduciary care and competent-married reduced-pension routes differ. C018–C022, C047–C051. | Legal capacity determination, qualifying care, pension category. | Institutional residence or diagnosis proves incompetency. | § 3.353 and the complete relevant § 3.551/§ 5503 clause. |
| B15 — Incarceration/status category. Partial. | Compensation/DIC felony route and pension felony-or-misdemeanor route have different conditions. C054–C066. | Applicable legal status, facility, duration and historical category. | A generic custody label establishes disqualification. | §§ 5313, 1505, 5313B and corresponding complete §§ 3.665–3.666; no record query. |
| B16 — Restricted category and exception. Partial. | § 3.453 requires specified VA findings, forfeiture or conviction predicates; independent survivor rights may differ. C023–C025, C067–C068. | Authorized finding and applicable statutory restriction. | Allegations or another person’s forfeiture bar every family benefit. | Exact §§ 6103–6105 and, if necessary, the complete public § 3.905 procedure. |
| B17 — Surviving-spouse DIC route. Partial. | Incarceration, prior residence, qualifying child and age/incapacity rules are cumulative. C015, C027, C035. | All relationship, residence and benefit predicates. | Every noncustodial child receives part of DIC. | §§ 3.451(a)(2), 3.455, 3.57 and 3.665 together. |
| B18 — Child on active duty. Answered rule. | Existing spouse award, entry into duty and already-on-duty-at-receipt are distinct cases. C016. | Applicable active-duty category and timing. | Entry necessarily creates, increases or terminates every apportioned amount. | § 3.451(b) and the narrow incorporated active-duty definition; broader service regime held. |
| B19 — Adopted-out child/additional dependent amount. Partial. | Child’s own-benefit status and § 1115 additional compensation differ. C041. | Actual program and current benefit predicates. | Adoption out removes every benefit or preserves every additional dependent amount. | §§ 3.57(a)(4), 3.58 and, if separately needed, current § 1115. |
| B20 — Current versus historical text. Partial. | Later amendments and retained stale cross-references must be identified separately. C031–C033, C052, C066, C072. | Complete corrective/implementation history. | Repeal, invalidity or an implied safe harbor merely from inconsistent text. | Relevant official amendatory/correction body for the exact mismatch. |
| B21 — Effective date unresolved. Partial. | § 3.400(e) has a general receipt rule and three exception categories. C069–C070. | Receipt, entitlement, primary-award and transition facts. | Request date, decision date and deposit date are identical. | § 3.400(e), applicable § 3.665(f)/3.666 clause and § 3.31(c)(3). |
| B22 — Initiation versus adjudication. Answered boundary. | Prescribed claim and completeness rules precede a decision. C012, C073–C074. | Complete authorized submission and merits evidence. | An inquiry or intent automatically grants an award. | Current generic prescribed-claim instructions and §§ 3.155(b), 3.160(a); no completed form. |
| B23 — Contested classification. Partial. | Functional competing-benefit effects determine the § 20.3(l) category. C078–C080. | Procedural classification and modern/legacy status. | Every disagreement is a simultaneous contest, or none is. | § 20.3(l), § 3.2400 and § 19.2. |
| B24 — Notice and other-party response. Partial. | All interested parties have specified notice rights; response follows communication of the relevant appeal substance. C076–C084. | Notice stage, content, authorized delivery and relevant party status. | An ordinary claimant notice satisfies every contested-party requirement. | § 7105A; modern §§ 20.400–20.407 or legacy §§ 19.100–19.102. |
| B25 — Appeal period/current wording. Partial. | Statute and § 3.2500(g) use issuance; § 20.402 retains mailing. C081–C082. | Complete current implementation, actual issuance/delivery and applicable extension rule. | A universal date based on an assumed letter, receipt or ordinary one-year period. | Public implementation of P.L. 117-168 § 807 plus the exact current counting provision. |
| B26 — Hearing and rescheduling. Answered narrow rule. | Other parties receive notice/opportunity; no cross-examination; special consent, service and timing rules govern changes. C086–C087. | Hearing classification, service, consent and good-cause determination. | A unilateral request automatically postpones a contested hearing. | §§ 20.711 and 20.704(c); no actual motion or notice. |
| B27 — Later change/termination. Partial. | Existing-award circumstances, release, last-payment and overpayment qualifications can alter payment. C011, C060–C061, C064, C071–C072. | Event, notice, continuing entitlement and correct aligned text. | Apportionment continues permanently or ends on an assumed date. | §§ 3.450(b), 3.500(d), 3.556(e), 3.665(i) or 3.666(c), route-specific. |
| B28 — Death/survivor context. Partial. | Death can end the circumstances supporting an existing apportionment; independent survivor benefits are separate. C007, C011, C032, C067. | Applicable survivor entitlement, death-related effective provision and actual facts. | An apportionment automatically converts to a survivor award. | Relevant generic chapter 13/15 survivor provision and precise discontinuance/substitution clause if needed. |
| B29 — Current dollar base unavailable. Unresolved. | Readable law refers to § 1114(a), but its current dollar body was not retrieved. C056, C093; S029. | Authenticated current rate and adjustment authority. | A remembered or historical dollar amount is current. | Reopen the official § 1114(a) body and applicable public rate-adjustment authority without a workaround. |
| B30 — Apportionment versus fiduciary/assignment/support/recovery. Excluded downstream merits. | The selected mechanism does not decide those separate legal questions. C048, C095. | Separate governing authority and every application fact. | Apportionment forgives debt, satisfies support, grants representation or proves protection. | The exact next authority listed in § 4.2, as a separate bounded component. |
| B31 — Source/currentness failure. Partial. | Failure is a limitation on evidence, not repeal or absence of protection. C003, C093–C094. | Failed bodies and unexamined later chain. | A search preview or older edition authenticates current law. | Ordinary official reopening, current correction/publication text, or a readable official alternate; no gate bypass. |
| B32 — Actual facts and parent dimensions. Excluded application. | No actual eligibility, hardship, allocation or debt-relief conclusion is possible from categories alone. C096. | All individual and operational predicates. | This report is an eligibility instrument, filing recommendation or acceptance. | Only a separately authorized generic public-law question; no identifying evidence request in this pass. |
Analytical field · Authority entry · Evidence entry · 43 data rows
| Analytical field | Authority entry | Evidence entry | Analysis | Result |
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| Source issuer/title | ||||
| Literal public source URL | ||||
| Displayed compilation/version | ||||
| Publication/legal status | ||||
| Effective/application provision | ||||
| Actual access/read bounds | ||||
| Source failure or alternate-access limit | ||||
| Generic benefit/program category | ||||
| Underlying-entitlement authority | ||||
| Generic beneficiary/claimant category | ||||
| Incorporated relationship definition | ||||
| Age/education/incapacity category | ||||
| Parent/dependency category | ||||
| Current versus historical route | ||||
| Living-arrangement/custody category | ||||
| Support/contribution predicate | ||||
| Institutional-care category | ||||
| Capacity/fiduciary-status authority | ||||
| Hardship predicate | ||||
| Competing-hardship authority | ||||
| Resources/special-needs legal category | ||||
| Discretionary language | ||||
| Mandatory restriction | ||||
| Exception/exception-to-exception | ||||
| Percentage or proportion | ||||
| Numerator/denominator or monetary base | ||||
| Unit and strict/inclusive boundary | ||||
| Trigger/reference event | ||||
| Counting/delivery convention | ||||
| Initiation/completeness/decision distinction | ||||
| Modern/legacy classification | ||||
| Simultaneously contested classification | ||||
| Notice recipient/content authority | ||||
| Response/review/hearing authority | ||||
| Effective-date exception | ||||
| Increase/decrease/discontinuance authority | ||||
| Release/resumption/prior-payment boundary | ||||
| Statutory/regulatory discrepancy | ||||
| Unread incorporated authority | ||||
| Assignment/protection/support boundary | ||||
| Recovery/waiver/debt-consequence boundary | ||||
| Missing evidence/authority | ||||
| Next permissible generic public-law inquiry |
User question/material subquestion · Status and finding · Claim/source/branch links · 48 data rows
| User question/material subquestion | Status and finding | Claim/source/branch links | Missing evidence and exact next permissible inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 Complete § 5307 | Answered. Complete operative body read. | C005–C008; S001; B01–B02. | Full underlying program entitlement remains outside scope. |
| 1.2 Actual regulatory organization | Answered. Six substantive sections; remaining selected numbers reserved. | C002, C010–C027; S002, S005. | No invented reserved body. |
| 1.3 Nested clauses and incorporated bodies | Partial. Material care, relationship, incarceration, forfeiture and procedure clauses read. | C032–C087; S004, S010–S017; § 2.3. | Current § 1114(a) dollar body failed; full specialized regimes held. Reopen that exact official clause if needed. |
| 1.4 Version/status/access/effectiveness | Answered within display limits. Dates distinguished. | C001–C004, C088–C094; source register. | Exhaustive post-compilation chain not established. |
| 1.5 Statute/regulation discrepancies | Partial. Specific differences identified without silent reconciliation. | C022, C033, C037, C050, C052, C066, C072, C082. | Read exact official corrective/implementation instruments for each discrepancy. |
| 2.1 Benefit categories | Answered selected scope. Pension, compensation, DIC, EORT and education references distinguished. | C005–C008, C045; S001, S004. | Complete eligibility and current rates held. |
| 2.2 Veteran/service/care definitions | Partial by scope. Necessary definitions read; no service dossier. | C046; S004, S002 R-D1. | Specific specialized service/approval regime only if independently necessary. |
| 2.3 Spouse/surviving spouse | Partial. Current statute, old regulation and public instruction distinguished. | C032–C034; B04. | Complete implementation/remarriage history and actual marriage law absent. |
| 2.4 Child/adoption/school/incapacity | Answered definitions; partial reconciliation. All material § 3.57 clauses read. | C035–C042; M03–M08; B05, B17–B19. | Post-death adoption wording alignment and any actual status unresolved. |
| 2.5 Parent/dependency | Answered generic definition. Status and financial dependency separated. | C043–C044; M09–M10; B03, B12. | Full income-character and estate computation remains separate. |
| 2.6 Basic entitlement/additional amount/recipient/apportionment | Answered boundary. Distinct concepts. | C041, C048, C053; comparisons. | Actual award and legal recipient absent. |
| 3.1 Living together/separate residence/custody | Answered current/historical distinction. | C006, C015, C028, C040, C053; B06–B08. | No actual relationship or custody finding. |
| 3.2 Support responsibility/contribution | Answered boundary. Former nonsupport route not current new-claim rule; support remains in other defined contexts. | C028, C044, C053; B07. | Current route must be identified first. |
| 3.3 Institutional/incompetency route | Answered provisions; application unresolved. | C013, C018–C022, C047–C051; B14. | Capacity/care determinations and current aligned timing absent. |
| 3.4 Hardship required for which route | Answered with discrepancy preserved. § 5503(a)(2) expressly requires it. | C022, C029; B10–B11. | Complete implementation of regulatory omission remains open. |
| 3.5 Duty versus discretion | Answered. Permissive, mandatory and prohibitory wording distinguished. | C009, C013–C027; comparison table. | No isolated wording establishes a specific award. |
| 4.1 Current special/hardship rule | Answered. Former special rule replaced; residual statute identified. | C022, C028–C031. | No universal new hardship formula supplied. |
| 4.2 Resources/income/special needs | Answered legal-category boundary. | C029, C044; B12. | No financial evidence or protected-funds determination. |
| 4.3 Claimant versus competing hardship | Answered historical/current distinction. | C022, C029–C030; B10–B11. | Actual balancing and retained-award applicability absent. |
| 4.4 Percentages/base/ordinary qualifications | Answered. Historical strict comparisons and current monetary/reference-rate bases preserved. | C020–C022, C030, C056–C057; M13–M15, M30, M33. | Current § 1114 dollar amount failed; no actual denominator. |
| 5.1 Claim-dependent restrictions | Answered. Prescribed claim and spouse/child prerequisites. | C012, C023; B22. | Completeness and authorized signature absent. |
| 5.2 Forfeiture/conduct categories | Answered selected boundary; full procedure excluded. | C024–C025, C067–C068; S014; B16. | § 3.905 full procedure and actual finding remain held. |
| 5.3 Incarceration/fugitive categories | Answered generic framework; application unresolved. | C054–C066; B15. | No legal-status or facility fact; broader criminal law excluded. |
| 5.4 Active-duty/adopted-out child | Answered with historical distinction. | C016, C031, C041; B18–B19. | No actual service/adoption category. |
| 5.5 Institutional/pension limitations | Partial. Relevant reduction and exception clauses read; discrepancies explicit. | C049–C053, C072; B14. | Exact section 306 timing alignment and complete separate A&A/Medicaid systems held. |
| 5.6 Death/survivor context | Partial. Selected apportionment and continuation provisions covered. | C007, C011, C015, C027, C067; B28. | Full survivor entitlement and death-processing regimes excluded. |
| 6.1 Initiation versus adjudication | Answered boundary. | C012, C073–C074; B22. | No actual submission or decision. |
| 6.2 Contested classification | Answered definition; application unresolved. | C078–C080; B23. | Competing-payment effects and review-system status absent. |
| 6.3 Notice recipients/content | Answered selected clauses. | C076–C084; B24. | Actual notice delivery/election/content absent. |
| 6.4 Response/review/appeal periods | Partial. Periods and triggers documented; issuance/mailing alignment unresolved. | C081–C085; M49–M56; B25. | Exact public implementation of 2022 notice amendment. |
| 6.5 Hearing/evidence rules | Answered narrow contested clauses. | C083, C086–C087; M52, M57–M59; B26. | Full evidentiary record/judicial review outside scope. |
| 6.6 Effective/payment dates | Partial. General rule and exceptions read; no actual calculation. | C059–C060, C064, C069–C072; M34–M44. | Receipt, entitlement, notice and prior-payment predicates absent. |
| 6.7 Increase/decrease/termination/resumption | Partial. Route-specific rules covered. | C011, C060–C061, C064, C071–C072; B27. | Compilation mismatch and actual event remain unresolved. |
| 7.1 Fiduciary/representative distinction | Answered narrow boundary. | C048, C095; S010; B09, B30. | Complete Part 13 authority/appointment regime held. |
| 7.2 Assignment/attachment/protected deposit | Excluded merits with precise next pointer. | C095; § 4.2; B30. | § 5301 and applicable legal-process regime require separate inquiry. |
| 7.3 Support/divorce/creditor collection | Excluded merits. No equivalence inferred. | C095; § 4.2. | Separate governing jurisdiction and statutory authority. |
| 7.4 Recovery/waiver/debt release/tax/credit/bankruptcy | Excluded parent dimensions. | C095–C096; § 4.2; B30–B32. | Separate authorities and all actual facts absent. |
| 8.1 Current 2026 adoption and nomenclature | Answered selected instruments. Actual amendatory text read. | C088; S005–S006. | No unexamined later amendment asserted absent. |
| 8.2 Later material statutory changes | Answered narrow changes. 2025 definition, 2022 notice, 2006 facility changes authenticated. | C089–C091; S008, S022–S023. | Complete downstream implementation remains partial. |
| 8.3 Historical pension/education/appeal transitions | Partial. Selected 1972, 1978, 2001, 2017–2019 instruments read; 1989 direct access limited. | C055, C090, C092; S018–S027. | Complete earlier and intervening chain not claimed. |
| 8.4 Failures and source status | Answered as evidence limitations. | C003–C004, C093–C094; failure log. | Ordinary official reopens only; no bypass. |
| 8.5 Judicial/later-law treatment | Unresolved/excluded by scope. | C003, C093. | No opinions, dockets or case records queried. |
| 9.1 All requested comparisons | Answered with express holds. | § 4; C005–C095. | No comparison is individualized. |
| 9.2 Complete relied-on measurement register | Answered. Units, bases, strictness, triggers and qualifications recorded. | M01–M63. | No actual amount, count, deadline or model. |
| 10.1 At least twenty substantive branches | Answered. Thirty-two branches supplied. | B01–B32, each with claim/source and next inquiry. | Application predicates remain absent as stated per row. |
| 10.2 Adaptation to actual current text | Answered. Former general/special and percentage branches classified historically. | B07–B13, B20–B21. | No fabricated current condition used to fill a row. |
| 11.1 Wholly blank worksheet | Answered. All entry/analysis/result cells blank. | § 7. | No identifying entries, examples, application or outcome. |
| 11.2 Scope and acceptance boundary | Answered boundary. | C096; self-check below. | No component, parent, operational or publication acceptance. |
Log item · Exact endpoint or source event · Result and bounded treatment · 15 data rows
| Log item | Exact endpoint or source event | Result and bounded treatment |
|---|---|---|
| F01 — Initial statutory viewer | https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section5307&num=0&edition=prelim | Returned a failed/404-style response. S001 was subsequently read through the successful current OLRC section body. |
| F02 — Incorrect discovery group URL | https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-3/subpart-A/subject-group-ECFR7f1bfddfe464f83 | Inaccessible. No text inferred. Correct apportionment group URL is S002. |
| F03 — Initial current OLRC openings | Current-prefix endpoints for § 5307, § 5502, § 5503, § 5313, § 7105A, § 1505, § 5313B, § 501, § 6103, § 6104, § 6105, § 1521, § 1522 | Some initial direct opens failed. Subsequent ordinary navigation/opening produced the current bodies recorded in the register. A successful later read does not erase the initial failures. Full literal endpoints are in S001, S003, S010–S015. |
| F04 — Generic § 6104 route | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/t38/s6104/ | Failed; current body later reached through official adjacent-section navigation. |
| F05 — Older redirects | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/t38/s101/ https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/t38/s5307/ | Initial generic navigation exposed older compilation versions, including Oct. 6/Oct. 9 labels. The successful P.L. 119-134 bodies were subsequently read. Older redirects were not relabeled current. |
| F06 — Historical eCFR date routes | https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2026-02-08/title-38/chapter-I/part-3/subpart-A/subject-group-ECFRefca2e78000b27d https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2026-02-08/title-38/section-3.451 https://www.ecfr.gov/2025-07-01/title-38/chapter-I/part-3/subpart-A/subject-group-ECFRefca2e78000b27d | Failed historical access. Official 2025 CFR PDFs were used only as historical evidence, with exact edition limits. |
| F07 — Historical CFR HTML | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title38-vol1/html/CFR-2025-title38-vol1-sec3-451.htm | Inaccessible; official PDF counterpart read. |
| F08 — Manual body unavailable | S028 complete literal KnowVA URL | Returned JavaScript-disabled text only. No manual instruction, transition rule or preview date adopted as evidence. |
| F09 — Federal Register access gate | https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/84-FR-177, redirect to https://unblock.federalregister.gov | Access-request page encountered; no interaction or workaround. Official GovInfo 2019 rule body was read instead. |
| F10 — 2019 effective-date HTML | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-07/html/2019-01432.htm | Inaccessible; complete relevant VA segment in official PDF S021 read. |
| F11 — Statutes-at-Large viewers | https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.html?page=2064&volume=103 https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.html?page=2510&volume=92 | Viewer shells did not expose the actual page body in the returned text. No visual-page inspection claimed. Official PDF alternatives were attempted/read as documented. |
| F12 — 1989 PDF reopening | S026 GovInfo PDF; S026 Congress PDF alternative | Repeated targeted GovInfo openings timed out; Congress alternative returned restricted-URL failure. Earlier parsed extraction remains limited; no complete-file or pixel claim. |
| F13 — Current § 1114 rate body | S029 two complete literal URLs | Current endpoint inaccessible; generic endpoint yielded no substantive rate body. No current dollar amount supplied. |
| F14 — Later § 5503 reopen | https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t38/s5503/ | A direct retry failed; reopening the already retrieved official reference succeeded and exposed the complete operative body. Both outcomes retained. |
| F15 — Discovery-only material | Search results, source-credit links, adjacent unexamined clauses and unsolicited third-party results | Used only to locate public law. No actual case/opinion/party record was opened or relied on; no mirror was labeled an official current body. |
Gap · Precisely unresolved · Why it matters; next permissible public-law inquiry · 12 data rows
| Gap | Precisely unresolved | Why it matters; next permissible public-law inquiry |
|---|---|---|
| G01 — Pre-transition pending, unpaid claims | § 3.450 expressly addresses new receipts and already-paid apportionments, but this pass did not authenticate complete instructions for every pending-before-date/unpaid situation. | Could determine which substantive standard applies. Reopen readable official generic transition instructions; do not infer the answer from the failed manual preview. |
| G02 — Statutory hardship versus regulatory omission | Complete implementation of § 5503(a)(2)’s affirmative-hardship condition alongside § 3.452(b)(2)(ii). | The statutory condition cannot be omitted merely because the new regulation is shorter. Read exact official implementation or corrective text. |
| G03 — Marriage and surviving-spouse alignment | Full reconciliation of current § 101(3), retained § 101(31)/§ 3.50 wording, § 103 exceptions and VA public instruction. | No universal eligibility or disqualification conclusion. Full marital/judicial regimes remain held. |
| G04 — Post-death adoption alignment | The different historical date and support wording in § 101(4)(A) and § 3.57(c). | No inferred automatic invalidity, broader eligibility or personal outcome. Read exact relevant amendment/application history. |
| G05 — Section 306 reduction timing | § 3.551(c)’s second-month wording versus § 3.501(i)(2)(ii)’s third-month hospital/nursing-home wording. | No reduction date selected. Authenticate the precise correction/history before operational application. |
| G06 — Stale references and § 3.556(e) | Obsolete § 3.454(b)/§ 3.458 references and retained old sentence in the compiled § 3.556(e). | No implied continuation or removed restriction reconstructed. Published amendment and any subsequent correction must be read together. |
| G07 — Current monetary base | § 1114(a) body and any applicable current rate-adjustment authority. | The incarceration rule’s named reference rate is supported, but its dollar value is not. |
| G08 — Notice/counting alignment | “Issued” in current § 7105A and § 3.2500(g) versus “mailed” in § 20.402, including electronic-notice implications. | No actual appeal deadline, deemed receipt or automatic extension. Read exact current public implementation. |
| G09 — Historical-chain completeness | Full direct 1989 amendatory access and every intervening amendment/correction to all subsidiary provisions. | Current readable provisions remain evidence, but exhaustive historical completeness is not claimed. |
| G10 — Post-compilation and judicial history | Law or judicial treatment beyond the displayed compilation boundaries, and all unexamined judicial history. | No absence-of-change, validity, stay, vacatur or litigation conclusion. |
| G11 — Actual predicates | Every relationship, benefit, support, capacity, hardship, institutional, status, notice, payment and entitlement fact. | Entire application remains unresolved; this pass requests none of those records. |
| G12 — Parent dimensions | Full benefit eligibility, fiduciary administration, support enforcement, assignment, attachment, protected deposits, debt recovery/waiver, tax, credit, bankruptcy and other military/family remedies. | Separate authorities and a separately bounded inquiry are necessary. No apportionment provision resolves them by implication. |
Check · Result · 12 data rows
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| Independent source foundation for this component | Public originals were reopened; prior conversation/report conclusions were not used as premises. |
| Complete selected current core | § 5307 and all substantive current sections in §§ 3.450–3.461 were read; reserved numbers were identified rather than supplied with invented text. |
| Actual 2026 change recognized | New operative bodies, application date, existing-paid-award continuation and historical general/special rules were separated. |
| Material statutory qualifications retained | The § 5503 hardship condition, later surviving-spouse amendment, later facility language and later notice amendment remain visible. |
| Mandatory/discretionary language | “May,” “will,” “will not,” “generally” and historical “ordinarily” were not converted into a guaranteed award. |
| Measurement discipline | All relied-on quantities are registered with units, bases, triggers and qualifications; no benefit amount, family illustration or actual deadline was computed. |
| Source failures | Failed originals, older redirects, gate response, inaccessible manual and rate-base failure remain visible. |
| PDF discipline | Parsed text was not described as pixel inspection; printed pages and zero-based indices were separated where used. |
| No actual or fictional records | No identifying party, benefit record, household, financial/medical data, claim, application, notice or dispute was created or inspected. |
| No unauthorized operations | No accounts, contacts, filings, records requests, website changes, security workarounds, subagents or additional chats were used. |
| Provenance claims | No local files, hashes, imports, independent reviewer, or unseen model/UI verification is claimed. |
| Review/acceptance status | This is the researcher’s own check, not independent review, and supplies no component, A076/parent, operational or publication acceptance. |
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