Regulations last checked for updates: May 19, 2024

Title 38 - Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief last revised: May 13, 2024
§ 4.19 - Age in service-connected claims.

Age may not be considered as a factor in evaluating service-connected disability; and unemployability, in service-connected claims, associated with advancing age or intercurrent disability, may not be used as a basis for a total disability rating. Age, as such, is a factor only in evaluations of disability not resulting from service, i.e., for the purposes of pension.

[29 FR 6718, May 22, 1964, as amended at 43 FR 45349, Oct. 2, 1978]
authority: 38 U.S.C. 1155,unless
source: 29 FR 6718, May 22, 1964, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 38 CFR 4.19