Ratings and Evaluations; Service Connection

  1. Law
  2. CFR 38
  3. Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief
  4. Department of Veterans Affairs
  5. Adjudication
  6. Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation
  7. Ratings and Evaluations; Service Connection

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Section
3.303

Principles relating to service connection.

Section
3.304

Direct service connection; wartime and peacetime.

Section
3.305

Direct service connection; peacetime service before January 1, 1947.

Section
3.306

Aggravation of preservice disability.

Section
3.307

Presumptive service connection for chronic, tropical, or prisoner-of-war related disease, disease associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents, or disease associated with exposure to contaminants in the water supply at Camp Lejeune; wartime and service on or after January 1, 1947.

Section
3.308

Presumptive service connection; peacetime service before January 1, 1947.

Section
3.309

Disease subject to presumptive service connection.

Section
3.310

Disabilities that are proximately due to, or aggravated by, service-connected disease or injury.

Section
3.311

Claims based on exposure to ionizing radiation.

Section
3.312

Cause of death.

Section
3.313

Claims based on service in Vietnam.

Section
3.314

Basic pension determinations.

Section
3.315

Basic eligibility determinations; dependents, loans, education.

Section
3.316

Claims based on chronic effects of exposure to mustard gas and Lewisite.

Section
3.317

Compensation for certain disabilities occurring in Persian Gulf veterans.

Section
3.318

Presumptive service connection for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Section
3.319

§ 3.319 [Reserved]

Section
3.320

Claims based on exposure to fine particulate matter.

Section
3.321

General rating considerations.

Section
3.322

Rating of disabilities aggravated by service.

Section
3.323

Combined ratings.

Section
3.324

Multiple noncompensable service-connected disabilities.

Section
3.325

§ 3.325 [Reserved]

Section
3.326

Examinations.

Section
3.327

Reexaminations.

Section
3.328

lndependent medical opinions.

Section
3.329

§ 3.329 [Reserved]

Section
3.330

Resumption of rating when veteran subsequently reports for Department of Veterans Affairs examination.

Sections
3.331-3.339

§§ 3.331-3.339 [Reserved]

Section
3.340

Total and permanent total ratings and unemployability.

Section
3.341

Total disability ratings for compensation purposes.

Section
3.342

Permanent and total disability ratings for pension purposes.

Section
3.343

Continuance of total disability ratings.

Section
3.344

Stabilization of disability evaluations.