# Removal of References to ``Vicious Habits''
> **Treasury** · Final rule. · Published 1996-05-07 · Effective 1996-05-07 · 61 FR 20438
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-11280
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Treasury
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 20438
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 3
- **Publication date:** 1996-05-07
- **Effective date:** 1996-05-07
## Abstract

Certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations state that to be eligible for pension a veteran must be permanently and totally disabled from nonservice-connected disability not due to the veteran's own willful misconduct or vicious habits. The statute upon which these regulations is based was changed in 1978 to delete references to ``vicious habits.'' The purpose of this rule is to conform the regulations to the statute.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/05/07/96-11280/removal-of-references-to-vicious-habits)
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