These federal exemptions can be used in addition to your state
exemptions.
| ASSET |
EXEMPTION DESCRIPTION |
LAW SECTION
(United States Code) |
| Retirement Benefits |
CIA employees
|
50 § 403
|
| |
Civil service employees |
5 § 8346 |
| |
Foreign service employees |
22 § 4060 |
| |
Military honor roll pensions |
38 § 562 |
| |
Military service employees |
10 § 1440 |
| |
Railroad workers |
45 § 231m |
| |
Social Security |
42 § 407 |
| |
Veterans' benefits |
38 § 3101 |
| |
Veterans' medal of honor benefits |
38 § 562 |
| Survivor's benefits |
Judges, US court directors, judicial
center directors, supreme court chief justice administrators
|
28 § 376
|
| |
Lighthouse workers |
33 § 775 |
| |
Military service |
10 § 1450 |
| Death & Disability Benefits |
Government employees
|
5 § 8130
|
| |
Longshoremen and harbor workers |
33 § 916 |
| |
War risk hazard death or injury compensation |
42 § 1717 |
| Miscellaneous |
Klamath Indian tribe benefits for
Indians residing in Oregon
|
25 § 543, 25 § 545
|
| |
Military deposits in savings accounts
while on permanent duty outside continental U.S. |
10 § 1035 |
| |
Military group life insurance |
38 § 770(g) |
| |
Railroad workers' unemployment insurance |
45 § 352(e) |
| |
Seamen's clothing |
46 § 1110 |
| |
Seamen's wages (while at sea) pursuant
to a written contract |
46 § 1111 |
| |
75% of earned but unpaid wages; bankruptcy
judge may authorize more for low-income debtors |
15 § 1673 |
