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38 U.S.C. § 3534 — Apprenticeship or other on-job training; correspondence courses
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**(a)** Any eligible person shall be entitled to pursue, in a State, a program of apprenticeship or other on-job training and be paid a training assistance allowance as provided in [section 3687 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3687&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b)** Any eligible spouse or surviving spouse shall be entitled to pursue a program of education exclusively by correspondence and be paid an educational assistance allowance as provided in section 3686 (other than subsection (a)(2)) of this title and the period of such spouse’s entitlement shall be charged with one month for each $788 which is paid to the spouse as an educational assistance allowance for such course.
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**(a)** Any eligible person shall be entitled to pursue, in a State, a program of apprenticeship or other on-job training and be paid a training assistance allowance as provided in [section 3687 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3687&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b)** Any eligible spouse or surviving spouse shall be entitled to pursue a program of education exclusively by correspondence and be paid an educational assistance allowance as provided in section 3686 (other than subsection (a)(2)) of this title and the period of such spouse’s entitlement shall be charged with one month for each $788 which is paid to the spouse as an educational assistance allowance for such course.
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**(a)** The Secretary shall furnish hospital and nursing home care and medical services to any individual described in subsection (b) in the same manner, and subject to the same terms and conditions, as apply to the furnishing of such care and services to individuals who are veterans as defined in [section 101(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section101/2&num=0&edition=prelim). Any disability of an individual described in subsection (b) that is a service-connected disability for purposes of this subchapter (as provided for under [section 1735(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1735/2&num=0&edition=prelim)) shall be considered to be a service-connected disability for purposes of furnishing care and services under the preceding sentence.
**(b)** Subsection (a) applies to any individual who is a Commonwealth Army veteran or new Philippine Scout and who—
(1) is residing in the United States; and
(2) is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence.
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**(a)** An eligible veteran (as defined in [section 3452(a)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3452/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim)) or an eligible person (as defined in [section 3501(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3501/a&num=0&edition=prelim)) shall be paid a training assistance allowance as prescribed by subsection (b) of this section while pursuing a full-time—
(1) program of apprenticeship approved by a State approving agency as meeting the standards of apprenticeship published by the Secretary of Labor pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 16, 1937 (popularly known as the “National Apprenticeship Act”) ([29 U.S.C. 50a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section50a&num=0&edition=prelim)), or
(2) program of other on-job training approved under provisions of [section 3677 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3677&num=0&edition=prelim),
subject to the conditions and limitations of chapters 34 and 35 of this title with respect to educational assistance.
**(b)**
(1) The monthly training assistance allowance of an eligible veteran pursuing a program described under subsection (a) shall be as follows: Column IColumnIIColumnIIIColumnIVColumn V Periods oftrainingNodependentsOnedependentTwodependentsMore thantwodependents The amount in column IV, plus the following for each dependent in excess of two: First 6 months$274$307$336 $14 Second 6 months205239267 14 Third 6 months136171198 14 Fourth and any succeeding 6-month periods68101131 14
(2) The monthly training assistance allowance of an eligible person pursuing a program described under subsection (a) shall be $57
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**(a) Definitions.—** In this title, the following definitions apply:
(1) **Apportionment.—** — The term “apportionment” includes unexpended apportionments made under prior authorization laws.
(2) **Asset management.—** — The term “asset management” means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on both engineering and economic analysis based upon quality information, to identify a structured sequence of maintenance, preservation, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement actions that will achieve and sustain a desired state of good repair over the lifecycle of the assets at minimum practicable cost.
(3) **Carpool project.—** — The term “carpool project” means any project to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools, including provision of carpooling opportunities to the elderly and individuals with disabilities, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, designating existing facilities for use for preferential parking for carpools, and real-time ridesharing projects, such as projects where drivers, using an electronic transfer of funds, recover costs directly associated with the trip provided through the use of location technology to quantify those direct costs, subject to the condition that the cost recovered does not exceed the cost of the trip provided.
(4) **Construction.—** — The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bon
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**(a)**
(1) Except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary shall conduct an annual compliance survey of educational institutions and training establishments offering one or more courses approved for the enrollment of eligible veterans or persons if at least 20 such veterans or persons are enrolled in any such course. The Secretary shall—
(A) design the compliance surveys to ensure that such institutions or establishments, as the case may be, and approved courses are in compliance with all applicable provisions of chapters 30 through 36 of this title;
(B) survey each such educational institution and training establishment not less than once during every 2-year period; and
(C) assign not fewer than 1 education compliance specialist to work on compliance surveys in any year for each 40 compliance surveys required to be made under this section for such year.
(2) The Secretary, in consultation with the State approving agencies, shall—
(A) annually determine the parameters of the surveys required under paragraph (1); and
(B) not later than September 1 of each year, make available to the State approving agencies a list of the educational institutions and training establishments that will be surveyed during the fiscal year following the date of making such list available.
**(b)** The Secretary may waive the requirement in subsection (a)(1) for a compliance survey with respect to an educational institution or training establishment if the Secretary determines, based on the record of compliance of such institution or establishment with all the applicable provisions of chapters 30 through 36 of this title, that the waiver would be appropriate and in the best interest of the United States Government.
**(c)** To the maximum extent feasible, the Secretary, or
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**(a)**
(1) The educational assistance allowance on behalf of an eligible person who is pursuing a program of education consisting of institutional courses shall be paid at the monthly rate of $1,224 for full-time, $967 for three-quarter-time, or $710 for half-time pursuit.
(2) The educational assistance allowance on behalf of an eligible person pursuing a program of education on less than a half-time basis shall be paid at the rate of the lesser of—
(A) the established charges for tuition and fees that the educational institution involved requires similarly circumstanced nonveterans enrolled in the same program to pay; or
(B) $1,224 per month for a full-time course.
**(b)** The educational assistance allowance to be paid on behalf of an eligible person who is pursuing a full-time program of education which consists of institutional courses and alternate phases of training in a business or industrial establishment with the training in the business or industrial establishment being strictly supplemental to the institutional portion, shall be computed at the rate of $1,224 per month.
**(c)**
(1) An eligible person who is enrolled in an educational institution for a “farm cooperative” program consisting of institutional agricultural courses prescheduled to fall within forty-four weeks of any period of twelve consecutive months and who pursues such program on—
(A) a full-time basis (a minimum of ten clock hours per week or four hundred and forty clock hours in such year prescheduled to provide not less than eighty clock hours in any three-month period),
(B) a three-quarter-time basis (a minimum of seven clock hours per week), or
(C) a half-time basis (a minimum of five clock hours per week),
shall be eligible to receive an educational assistance allowa
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 3534
under section 3491(a) (if pursued in a State) of
this title and be paid an educational assistance
allowance therefor in the manner prescribed by
section 3491(b) of this title, except that the cor-
responding rate provisions of this chapter shall
apply, as determined by the Secretary, to such
pursuit by an eligible person.
(2) Educational assistance under this chapter
for the first five months of full-time pursuit of
a program (or the equivalent thereof in part-
time educational assistance) consisting of such
course or courses shall be provided without
charge to entitlement.
(b) Any eligible person shall, without charge
to any entitlement such person may have under
section 3511 of this title, be entitled to the bene-
fits provided an eligible veteran under section
3492 of this title.
(Added Pub. L. 92–540, title III, § 313, Oct. 24, 1972,
86 Stat. 1084, § 1733; amended Pub. L. 94–502, title
III, § 310(17), (18), Oct. 15, 1976, 90 Stat. 2392; Pub.
L. 98–223, title II, § 203(b), Mar. 2, 1984, 98 Stat. 41;
Pub. L. 100–689, title I, § 106(c), Nov. 18, 1988, 102
Stat. 4167; Pub. L. 101–237, title IV, § 403(a)(8),
Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2079; Pub. L. 102–16,
§ 10(a)(6), Mar. 22, 1991, 105 Stat. 56; renumbered
§ 3533 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), (c)(1),
Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1991—Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), renumbered section 1733 of
this title as this section.
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted
‘‘3491(a)’’ for ‘‘1691(a)’’ and ‘‘3491(b)’’ for ‘‘1691(b)’’.
Pub. L. 102–16 substituted ‘‘Secretary’’ for ‘‘Secretary
of Veterans Affairs’’.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted ‘‘3511’’
for ‘‘1711’’ and ‘‘3492’’ for ‘‘1692’’.
1989—Subs
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