**§8.8 Health requirements.**

National Service life insurance on any plan may be reinstated if
application and tender of premiums are made:

\(a\) Within 6 premium months including the premium month for which the
unpaid premium was due, provided the applicant be in as good health on
the date of application and tender of premiums as he or she was on the
last day of the grace period of the premium in default and furnishes
satisfactory evidence thereof.

\(b\) After expiration of the 6-month period mentioned in paragraph (a)
of this section, provided applicant is in good health (§8.0) on the date
of application and tender of premiums and furnishes satisfactory
evidence. If the insurance to be reinstated was issued under 38 U.S.C.
1922(a), 1925(b), or 1925(c) and application is made within 1 year of
the date of lapse, any service-connected disability existing at the time
the insurance was issued will be waived for the purpose of reinstatement
(including natural progression of the condition since time of issuance).
If the insurance to be reinstated was issued under 38 U.S.C. 1925(a) and
application is made within 1 year of the date of lapse, any
nonservice-connected disability, or service-connected disability which
combined with a nonservice-connected disability rendered the insured
uninsurable as of October 13, 1964, will be waived for the purpose of
reinstatement (including natural progression).

\[33 FR 365, Jan. 10, 1968, as amended at 33 FR 12002, Aug. 23, 1968; 47
FR 11657, Mar. 18, 1982. Redesignated and amended at 61 FR 29290, 29292,
June 10, 1996; redesignated at 65 FR 7437, Feb. 15, 2000\]

**Supplement *Highlights* reference**: 9(4)

**§8.9 Application and medical evidence.**

The applicant for reinstatement of National Service Life Insurance,
during his or her lifetime, and within 5 years after the date of lapse
if the insurance was issued under 38 U.S.C. 1925, must submit a written
application signed by him or her and furnish satisfactory evidence of
health as required in §8.8 at the time of application. Applicant's own
statement of comparative health may be accepted as proof of insurability
for the purpose of reinstatement under §8.8(a), but, whenever deemed
necessary in any such case, report of physical examination may be
required. Applications for reinstatement submitted after expiration of
the applicable period mentioned in §8.8(a) must be accompanied by
satisfactory evidence of good health. If the insurance becomes a claim
after the tender of the amount necessary to meet reinstatement
requirements but before full compliance with the requirements of this
section, and the applicant was in a required state of health at the date
that he or she made the tender of the amount necessary to meet
reinstatement requirements, and that there is satisfactory reason for
his or her noncompliance the Assistant Director for Insurance VA Center,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania may, if the applicant be dead, waive any or
all requirements of this section (except payment of the necessary
premiums) or, if the applicant be living, allow compliance with this
section as of the date the required amount necessary to reinstate was
received by the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Authority: 38 U.S.C.
1925)

\[47 FR 11657, Mar. 18, 1982. Redesignated and amended at 61 FR 29290,
29292, June 10, 1996; redesignated at 65 FR 7437, Feb. 15, 2000; amended
at 65 FR 19659, Apr. 12, 2000\]

**Supplement *Highlights* reference**: 9(4)