§5306 Renouncement of Right to Benefits

Summary

You can give up your right to get a VA pension, disability pay, or dependency and indemnity compensation. To do this you must sign a written statement saying you renounce the benefit. Once you file that paper, payments stop and you lose all rights to those benefits from that date. You may apply again later, but a new claim will be treated as an original claim and you won’t get payments for any time before you file. If you file again within one year for a pension under chapter 15 or for parents’ DIC under section 1315, the claim won’t be treated as new and benefits will be paid as if you had not given them up.