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38 U.S.C. § 7691 — Establishment
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As part of the Educational Assistance Program, the Secretary may carry out a student loan repayment program under [section 5379 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5379&num=0&edition=prelim). The program shall be known as the Department of Veterans Affairs Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program (in this chapter referred to as the “Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program”).
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As part of the Educational Assistance Program, the Secretary may carry out a student loan repayment program under [section 5379 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5379&num=0&edition=prelim). The program shall be known as the Department of Veterans Affairs Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program (in this chapter referred to as the “Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program”).
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The purpose of the Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program is to assist, through the establishment of an incentive program for certain individuals employed in the Veterans Health Administration, in meeting the staffing needs of the Veterans Health Administration for physicians in medical specialties for which the Secretary determines recruitment or retention of qualified personnel is difficult.
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**(a)**
(1) For the purpose of this section—
(A) the term “agency” means an agency under subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of [section 4101(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section4101/1&num=0&edition=prelim), the Architect of the Capitol, the Botanic Garden, and the Office of Congressional Accessibility Services; and
(B) the term “student loan” means—
(i) a loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part B of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ([20 U.S.C. 1071](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1071&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.);
(ii) a loan made under part D or E of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ([20 U.S.C. 1087a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1087a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq., 1087aa et seq.); and
(iii) a health education assistance loan made or insured under part A of title VII of the Public Health Service Act ([42 U.S.C. 292](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section292&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) or under part E of title VIII of such Act ([42 U.S.C. 297a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section297a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(2) An employee shall be ineligible for benefits under this section if the employee occupies a position that is excepted from the competitive service because of its confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character.
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(1) The head of an agency may, in order to recruit or retain highly qualified personnel, establish a program under which the agency may agree to repay (by direct payments on behalf of the employee) any student loan previou
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 7692
of such a waiver, the total amount of education
debt repayments payable to or for that partici-
pant is the total amount of the principal and the
interest on the participant’s loans referred to in
subsection (a).
(B) A participant described in this subpara-
graph is a participant in the Program who the
Secretary determines serves in a position for
which there is a shortage of qualified employees
by reason of either the location or the require-
ments of the position.
(Added Pub. L. 105–368, title VIII, § 803(a), Nov.
11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3357; amended Pub. L. 107–135,
title I, § 102(c), Jan. 23, 2002, 115 Stat. 2448; Pub.
L. 111–163, title III, § 301(c), (d), May 5, 2010, 124
Stat. 1146; Pub. L. 113–146, title III, § 302(b), Aug.
7, 2014, 128 Stat. 1788; Pub. L. 113–175, title IV,
§ 408, Sept. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 1906; Pub. L. 114–58,
title VI, § 601(24), Sept. 30, 2015, 129 Stat. 539;
Pub. L. 115–182, title III, § 302(a), June 6, 2018, 132
Stat. 1463.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2018—Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 115–182 substituted
‘‘$200,000’’ for ‘‘$120,000’’ and ‘‘40,000’’ for ‘‘$24,000’’.
2015—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 114–58 inserted period at
end.
2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–175, § 408(1), added sub-
sec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a). Prior to
amendment, text read as follows: ‘‘Education debt re-
duction payments under the Education Debt Reduction
Program shall consist of payments to individuals se-
lected to participate in the program of amounts to re-
imburse such individuals for payments by such individ-
uals of principal and interest on loans described in sec-
tion 7682(a)(2) of this title.’’
Subsecs. (b)(1), (c). Pub. L. 113–175, § 408(2), sub-
stituted ‘‘payments to or for’’ for ‘‘payments
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