§ 483.013.Exemption of Federal Disability Benefits Awarded to Veterans For Service-Connected Disabilities

Even a claim that otherwise meets § 483.010’s requirements cannot reach certain federally protected veterans’ benefits. Section 483.013 provides that federal disability benefits awarded to veterans for service-connected disabilities under Chapter 11 of Title 38 of the United States Code are exempt from creditors’ claims and are not liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by any legal or equitable process, as federal law requires.

That protection has one carve-out: it does not apply to the portion of those benefits subject to child and spousal support enforcement under the specific federal support-enforcement provision this section cites. So a support enforcement action can still reach service-connected disability benefits to the extent federal law allows, even though ordinary creditors cannot.