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e-CFR Data is current as of November 19, 2009
TITLE 38--Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief
CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
PART 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
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| Description, use, and display of VA seal and flag. |
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| Eligibility for and disposition of the United States flag for burial purposes. |
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| Quarters for Department of Veterans Affairs employees in Government-owned or -rented buildings overseas. |
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| Standards for program evaluation. |
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| Evaluation of studies relating to health effects of dioxin and radiation exposure. |
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| Guidelines for establishing presumptions of service connection for former prisoners of war. |
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| Employee's duty to report. |
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| Information to be reported to VA Police. |
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| Information to be reported to the Office of Inspector General. |
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| Notification to the Attorney General or United States Attorney's Office. |
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| Security and law enforcement at VA facilities. |
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| Confidentiality restrictions. |
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| Criminal penalty for violations. |
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| Incompetent and deceased patients. |
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| Restrictions on the use of identification cards and public signs. |
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| Relationship to Federal statutes protecting research subjects against compulsory disclosure of their identity. |
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| Patient access and restrictions on use. |
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| Prohibition on redisclosure. |
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| Disclosures permitted with written consent. |
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| Disclosures to prevent multiple enrollments in detoxification and maintenance treatment programs; not applicable to records relating to sickle cell anemia or infection with the human immunodeficiency virus. |
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| Disclosures to elements of the criminal justice system which have referred patients. |
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| Eye, organ and tissue donation. |
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| Disclosure of information related to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus to public health authorities. |
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| Disclosure of information related to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus to the spouse or sexual partner of the patient. |
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| Audit and evaluation activities. |
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| Confidential communications. |
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| Order not applicable to records disclosed without consent to researchers, auditors and evaluators. |
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| Procedures and criteria for orders authorizing disclosures for noncriminal purposes. |
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| Procedures and criteria for orders authorizing disclosure and use of records to criminally investigate or prosecute patients. |
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| Procedures and criteria for orders authorizing disclosure and use of records to investigate or prosecute VA or employees of VA. |
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| Orders authorizing the use of undercover agents and informants to criminally investigate employees or agents of VA. |
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| Release of information by the Secretary. |
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| Disclosure of the amount of monetary benefits. |
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| Disclosure of information to a veteran or his or her duly authorized representative as to matters concerning the veteran alone. |
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| Disclosure of information to a widow, child, or other claimant. |
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| Disclosure of records to Federal Government departments, State unemployment compensation agencies, and the Office of Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance. |
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| Disclosures to members of Congress. |
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| Disclosure in cases where claimants are charged with or convicted of criminal offenses. |
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| Disclosure to courts in proceedings in the nature of an inquest. |
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| Disclosure to insurance companies cooperating with the Department of Justice in the defense of insurance suits against the United States. |
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| Disclosure of claimant records in connection with judicial proceedings generally. |
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| Disclosure of loan guaranty information. |
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| Disclosure of information contained in Armed Forces service and related medical records in Department of Veterans Affairs custody. |
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| Disclosure to private physicians and hospitals other than Department of Veterans Affairs. |
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| Disclosure to private psychologists. |
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| Disclosures to procurement organizations. |
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| To commanding officers of State soldiers' homes. |
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| Disclosure of information to undertaker concerning burial of a deceased veteran. |
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| Disclosure of vocational rehabilitation and education information to educational institutions cooperating with the Department of Veterans Affairs. |
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| Lists of names and addresses. |
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| Confidentiality of social data. |
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| Special restrictions concerning social security records. |
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| Determination of the question as to whether disclosure will be prejudicial to the mental or physical health of claimant. |
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| Persons authorized to represent claimants. |
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| Inspection of records by or disclosure of information to recognized representatives of organizations and recognized attorneys. |
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| Copies of records and papers. |
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| Public access to information that affects the public when not published in the Federal Register as constructive notice. |
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| Public access to other reasonably described records. |
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| Time limits for Department of Veterans Affairs response to requests for records. |
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| Exemptions from public access to agency records. |
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| Predisclosure notification procedures for confidential commercial information. |
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| Requests for other reasonably described records. |
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| Social security numbers in veterans' benefits matters. |
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| General policies, conditions of disclosure, accounting of certain disclosures, and definitions. |
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| Qualifications for access. |
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| Criteria for determining rights to employee inventions. |
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| Government license in invention of employee. |
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| Information to be submitted by inventor. |
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| Relationship to incentive awards program. |
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| Information to be kept confidential. |
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| Provisions of regulations made a condition of employment. |
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| Licensing of Government-owned inventions. |
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| Responsibility for violations of the administrative subdivision of funds. |
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| Contact person for missing children official mail program. |
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| Restrictions on use of missing children information. |
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| Homeless claimants: Delivery of benefit payments and correspondence. |
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| Establishing and converting part-time positions. |
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| Annual goals and timetables. |
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| Prescription of standards. |
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| No private rights created. |
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| Antitrust, fraud, and tax and interagency claims. |
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| Settlement, waiver, or compromise under other statutory or regulatory authority. |
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| Subdivision of claims not authorized. |
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| Required administrative proceedings. |
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| Aggressive collection action. |
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| Collection of debts owed by reason of participation in a benefits program. |
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| Collection of non-benefit debts. |
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| Collection by offset--from VA benefit payments. |
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| Liquidation of collateral. |
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| Collection in installments. |
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| Interest, administrative costs, and penalties. |
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| Disclosure of debt information to consumer reporting agencies (CRA). |
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| Contracting for collection services. |
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| Use and disclosure of mailing addresses. |
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| Administrative offset against amounts payable from Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), final salary check, and lump sum leave payments. |
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| Administrative wage garnishment. |
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| Suspension or revocation of eligibility for federal loans, loan insurance, loan guarantees, licenses, permits, or privileges. |
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| Reduction of debt through performance of work-study services. |
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| Joint and several liability. |
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| Further review of compromise offers. |
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| Consideration of tax consequences to the Government. |
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| Mutual releases of the debtor and VA. |
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| Suspension of collection activity. |
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| Termination of collection activity. |
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| Exception to termination. |
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| Discharge of indebtedness; reporting requirements. |
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| Claims Collection Litigation Report (CCLR). |
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| Preservation of evidence. |
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| Minimum amount of referrals to the Department of Justice. |
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| Regional office Committees on Waivers and Compromises. |
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| Records and certificates. |
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| Legal and technical assistance. |
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| Waiver; other than loan guaranty. |
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| Waiver; erroneous payments of pay and allowances. |
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| Scope of waiver decisions. |
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| Revision of waiver decisions. |
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| Standards for compromise. |
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| Salary offsets of debts involving benefits under the laws administered by VA. |
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| Notice requirements before salary offsets of debts not involving benefits under the laws administered by VA. |
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| Form, notice of, and conduct of hearing. |
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| Result if employee fails to meet deadlines. |
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| Review by the hearing official or administrative law judge. |
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| Written decision following a hearing requested under 1.984. |
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| Review of VA records related to the debt. |
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| Written agreement to repay debt as alternative to salary offset. |
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| Procedures for salary offset: when deductions may begin. |
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| Procedures for salary offset. |
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| Requesting recovery through centralized administrative offset. |
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