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6. KEY VA REGULATIONS
38 C.F.R. § 3.2 "Periods of war"
38 C.F.R. § 3.12 "Character of discharge"
38 C.F.R. § 3.103 "Procedural due process and appellate rights"
38 C.F.R. § 3.104 "Finality of decisions"
38 C.F.R. § 3.151 "Claims for disability benefits"
38 C.F.R. § 3.152 "Claims for death benefits"
38 C.F.R. § 3.155 "Informal claims"
38 C.F.R. § 3.156 "New and material evidence"
38 C.F.R. § 3.159 "Department of Veterans Affairs Assistance in developing claims"
38 C.F.R. § 3.303 "Principles relating to service connection"
38 C.F.R. § 3.304 "Direct service connection; wartime and peacetime"
38 C.F.R. § 3.306 "Aggravation of preservice disability"
38 C.F.R. § 3.307 "Presumptive service connection for chronic, tropical or prisoner-of-war related disease, or disease associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents; wartime and service on or after January 1, 1947"
38 C.F.R. § 3.309 "Disease subject to presumptive service connection"
38 C.F.R. § 3.311 "Claims based on exposure to ionizing radiation"
38 C.F.R. § 3.313 "Claims based on service in Vietnam"
38 C.F.R. § 3.317 "Compensation for certain undiagnosed illnesses"
38 C.F.R. § 3.318 "General rating considerations"
38 C.F.R. § 3.340 "Total and permanent total ratings and unemployability"
38 C.F.R. § 3.350 "Special monthly compensation ratings"
38 C.F.R. § 3.400 "[Effective dates] General"
38 C.F.R. § 3.500 "[Reductions and discontinuances] General"
38 C.F.R. § 3.951 "Preservation of disability ratings"
38 C.F.R. § 3.957 "[Protection of] Service connection"
38 C.F.R. § 3.1000 "Entitlement under 38 U.S.C. 5121 to benefits due and unpaid upon death of a beneficiary"
38 C.F.R. § 3.2600 "Review of benefits claims decisions"
38 C.F.R. § 4.25 "Combined ratings table"
38 C.F.R. § 4.40 4.150 "Disability ratings" [Ratings schedule]