Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-102
§14 Money Accruing to Indians From Department of Veterans Affairs or Other Governmental Agencies
Title 25 › CHAPTER 1 — BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS › § 14
Summary
Allows the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs or another federal agency to pay money owed to Native Americans who are adults unable to manage their own affairs or who are minors and federal wards with no guardian, to a bonded Indian Service superintendent or officer chosen by the Secretary of the Interior. That officer must keep the money for the beneficiary (or for the beneficiary’s heirs if the person has died) and must handle and report it with other funds he controls, following the law and Interior Department rules.
Full Legal Text
Title 25, §14
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Any money accruing from the Department of Veterans Affairs or other governmental agency to incompetent adult Indians, or minor Indians, who are recognized wards of the Federal Government, for whom no legal guardians or other fiduciaries have been appointed may be paid, in the discretion of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or other head of a governmental bureau or agency, having such funds for payment, to such superintendent or other bonded officer of the Indian Service as the Secretary of the Interior shall designate, for the use of such beneficiaries, or to be paid to or used for, the heirs of such deceased beneficiaries, to be handled and accounted for by him with other moneys under his control, in accordance with existing law and the regulations of the Department of the Interior.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1991—Pub. L. 102–54 substituted “Department of Veterans Affairs” for “Veterans’ Administration” and “Secretary of Veterans Affairs” for “Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs”.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For
Transfer of Functions
of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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Citation
25 U.S.C. § 14
Title 25, Indians
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102