[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR12.1]

[Page 548-549]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 12_DISPOSITION OF VETERAN'S PERSONAL FUNDS AND 
 
Sec.  12.1  Designee cases; competent veterans.

    (a) Each competent veteran now being cared for or who is hereafter 
admitted to receive care as such at a Department of Veterans Affairs 
field facility, unless it be detrimental to his or her health, will be 
requested and encouraged to designate on the prescribed VA Form 10-P-10, 
Application for Hospital Treatment or Domiciliary Care, the person to 
whom he or she desires the Department of Veterans Affairs to deliver his 
or her funds and effects in event of death. He or she may also designate 
an alternate to whom delivery will be made if the first designee fails 
or refuses to accept delivery. It should be clearly understood that the 
delivery of such funds or effects will constitute only a delivery of 
possession thereof, and such delivery is not intended to affect in any 
manner the title to such funds or effects or determine the person 
ultimately entitled to receive same from the person to whom delivery is 
made (hereinafter in the regulations in this part termed the designee). 
The person designated may not be an employee of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs unless such employee be the wife (or husband), child, 
grandchild, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, brother, or sister 
of the veteran. The veteran may in writing change or revoke such 
designation at any time. If a veteran becomes incompetent, any 
designation previously made will become inoperative with respect to 
those funds deposited by the Department of Veterans Affairs in Personal 
Funds of Patients which were derived from gratuitous benefits under laws 
administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The guardian may 
change or revoke the existing designation with respect to personal 
effects and funds derived from other sources.
    (b) Veterans will be encouraged to place in the custody of their 
relatives

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articles of little or no utility value to them during their period of 
care at a Department of Veterans Affairs field facility, and to retain 
in their possession only such funds and effects as are actually required 
and necessary for their immediate convenience.

[13 FR 7128, Nov. 27, 1948, as amended at 25 FR 1612, Feb. 25, 1960]