Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000

Pub. L. 106–475

US Codex doesn’t hold the enacted text of this law — the public-law corpus runs from the 113th Congress (2013) onward. What it changed in the U.S. Code, reconstructed from the credit notes, is listed below.

7 sections of the Code credited to this law, found between Public Law 106-170 and Public Law 106-580.

• 38 U.S.C. § 5100 — Definition of “claimant”
• 38 U.S.C. § 5102 — Application forms furnished upon request; notice to claimants of incomplete applications
• 38 U.S.C. § 5103 — Notice to claimants of required information and evidence
• 38 U.S.C. § 5103A — Duty to assist claimants
• 38 U.S.C. § 5106 — Furnishing of information by other agencies
• 38 U.S.C. § 5107 — Claimant responsibility; benefit of the doubt
• 38 U.S.C. § 5126 — Benefits not to be denied based on lack of mailing address