38 U.S.C. § 1987: Penalties

Summary

It is a crime to knowingly make, help make, or arrange false papers or statements for applying for, reinstating, waiving premiums on, or claiming benefits under National Service Life Insurance, United States Government life insurance, or yearly renewable term insurance. You can be fined up to $1,000, jailed up to one year, or both. Knowingly lying under oath about an important fact in such a claim is perjury. You can be fined up to $5,000, jailed up to two years, or both.

Title 38, §1987

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(a)Any person who shall knowingly make or cause to be made, or conspire, combine, aid, or assist in, agree to, arrange for, or in anywise procure the making or presentation of a false or fraudulent affidavit, declaration, certificate, statement, voucher, or paper, or writing purporting to be such, concerning any application for insurance or reinstatement thereof, waiver of premiums or claim for benefits under National Service Life Insurance, United States Government life insurance, or yearly renewable term insurance for any person, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(b)Whoever in any claim for National Service Life Insurance, United States Government life insurance, or yearly renewable term insurance makes any sworn statement of a material fact knowing it to be false, shall be guilty of perjury and shall be fined not more than $5,000, or be imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.

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Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 787 of this title as this section. 1986—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–576 substituted “any” for “himself or any other”.

§1987 Penalties

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Title 38, §1987

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