---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2776"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2776"
heading: "Payments at time of discharge for good of service"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2776"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 27 — Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter III — Payments"
---

# §2776. Payments at time of discharge for good of service


Enlisted members discharged by dishonorable discharge, bad-conduct discharge, or any other discharge for the good of the service, may, upon discharge, be paid a sum not to exceed $25. The sum paid shall be fixed by and in the discretion of the [Commandant](/usc/14/106.md), and shall be paid only in cases where the individual so discharged would otherwise be without funds to meet his immediate needs.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 533, § 481; Pub. L. 98–557, § 15(a)(3)(C), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2865; renumbered § 2776, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226; Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8505(a)(44), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4750.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Derived from title 34, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 197, and title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 3a (Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 536, § 10, 43 Stat. 1274; Oct. 26, 1942, ch. 623, 56 Stat. 987).

Said section 197 was made applicable to the Coast Guard by title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 3a whenever the Coast Guard is operating with the Navy. Experience has shown the advantage of having such a provision applicable to the Coast Guard at all times.

Said section would in no way be affected. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “individual” for “person”.

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 481 of this title as this section.

1984—Pub. L. 98–557 substituted “Enlisted members” for “Enlisted men”.