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.
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 |