38 CFR § 4.19 — Age in service-connected claims

Title 38, Code of Federal Regulations · full text below reproduced from the eCFR, revision of 2026-07-01.

In practice: Age may not be a factor in evaluations — unemployability cannot be attributed to age.

Regulation text

Age may not be considered as a factor in evaluating service-connected disability; and unemployability, in service-connected claims, associated with advancing age or intercurrent disability, may not be used as a basis for a total disability rating. Age, as such, is a factor only in evaluations of disability not resulting from service, i.e., for the purposes of pension.

Source note: [29 FR 6718, May 22, 1964, as amended at 43 FR 45349, Oct. 2, 1978]

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