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Federal Supplemental Bankruptcy Exemptions

If you live in a state where you may substitute the federal exemptions, and you do in fact use the federal exemption set instead of your state exemptions, then you cannot use these supplemental federal exemptions.

ASSETEXEMPTION DESCRIPTIONLAW SECTION(United States Code)
Retirement BenefitsCIA employees50 § 403
Civil service employees5 § 8346
Foreign service employees22 § 4060
Military honor roll pensions38 § 562
Military service employees10 § 1440
Railroad workers45 § 231m
Social Security42 § 407
Veterans’ benefits38 § 3101
Veterans’ medal of honor benefits38 § 562
Survivor’s benefitsJudges, US court directors, judicial
center directors, supreme court chief justice administrators
28 § 376
Lighthouse workers33 § 775
Military service10 § 1450
Death & Disability BenefitsGovernment employees5 § 8130
Longshoremen and harbor workers33 § 916
War risk hazard death or injury compensation42 § 1717
MiscellaneousKlamath 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 insurance38 § 770(g)
Railroad workers’ unemployment insurance45 § 352(e)
Seamen’s clothing46 § 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

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