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22 U.S.C. § 3976 — Survivors’ and dependents’ educational assistance

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22 U.S.C. § 3976 — Survivors’ and dependents’ educational assistance

**(a) Foreign Service employees** The Secretary shall, pursuant to guidance issued under [section 3973(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3973/c&num=0&edition=prelim), provide educational assistance to a beneficiary of any United States national Foreign Service employee who dies while on duty abroad as a result of an act of terrorism, as defined in [section 2656f(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2656f/d&num=0&edition=prelim), to meet, in whole or in part, the expenses incurred by the beneficiary in pursuing a program of education at an educational institution, including subsistence, tuition, fees, supplies, books, equipment, and other educational costs. **(b) Other executive agencies** The head of an executive agency shall, pursuant to guidance issued under [section 3973(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3973/c&num=0&edition=prelim) provide educational assistance authorized by this section to a beneficiary of any employee of that agency who dies as a result of an act of terrorism or terrorism, as defined in [section 2656f(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2656f/d&num=0&edition=prelim), while on duty abroad and subject to the authority of the chief of mission pursuant to [section 3927 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3927&num=0&edition=prelim). **(c) Amount of assistance** Educational assistance under this section may be made available up to the amounts provided for in [section 3532 of title 38](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section3532&n

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38 U.S.C. § 3564 — Annual adjustment of amounts of educational assistance

**(a)** With respect to any fiscal year, the Secretary shall provide a percentage increase in the rates payable under sections 3532, 3534(b), and 3542(a) of this title equal to the percentage by which— (1) the Consumer Price Index (all items, United States city average) for the 12-month period ending on the June 30 preceding the beginning of the fiscal year for which the increase is made, exceeds (2) such Consumer Price Index for the 12-month period preceding the 12-month period described in paragraph (1). **(b)** Any increase under subsection (a) in a rate with respect to a fiscal year after fiscal year 2004 and before fiscal year 2014 shall be rounded down to the next lower whole dollar amount. Any such increase with respect to a fiscal year after fiscal year 2013 shall be rounded to the nearest whole dollar amount.

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22 U.S.C. § 3973 — Death gratuities

**(a) Criteria; amount; payment deemed gift** The Secretary may provide for payment of a gratuity to the surviving dependents of any Foreign Service employee, who dies as a result of injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad, in an amount equal to one year’s salary at level II of the Executive Schedule under [section 5313 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5313&num=0&edition=prelim) at the time of death, except that for employees compensated under local compensation plans established under [section 3968 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3968&num=0&edition=prelim) the amount shall be equal to the greater of either one year’s salary at the time of death, or one year’s basic salary at the highest step of the highest grade on the local compensation plan from which the employee was being paid at the time of death. Any death gratuity payment made under this section shall be held to have been a gift and shall be in addition to any other benefit payable from any source. **(b) Other executive agencies** The head of an executive agency shall, pursuant to guidance issued under subsection (c), make a death gratuity payment authorized by this section to the survivors of any employee of that agency or of an individual in a special category serving in an uncompensated capacity for that agency, as identified in guidance issued under subsection (c), who dies as a result of injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad while subject to the authority of the chief of mission pursuant to [section 3927 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3927&num=0&edition=prelim). **(c) Guidance** Not later than 60 days after

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22 U.S.C. § 3927 — Chief of mission

**(a) Duties** Under the direction of the President, the chief of mission to a foreign country— (1) shall have full responsibility for the direction, coordination, and supervision of all Government executive branch employees in that country (except for Voice of America correspondents on official assignment and employees under the command of a United States area military commander); and (2) shall keep fully and currently informed with respect to all activities and operations of the Government within that country, and shall insure that all Government executive branch employees in that country (except for Voice of America correspondents on official assignment and employees under the command of a United States area military commander) comply fully with all applicable directives of the chief of mission. **(b) Duties of agencies with employees in foreign countries** Any executive branch agency having employees in a foreign country shall keep the chief of mission to that country fully and currently informed with respect to all activities and operations of its employees in that country, and shall insure that all of its employees in that country (except for Voice of America correspondents on official assignment and employees under the command of a United States area military commander) comply fully with all applicable directives of the chief of mission. **(c) Promotion of United States goods and services** Each chief of mission to a foreign country shall have as a principal duty the promotion of United States goods and services for export to such country. **(d) Promotion of United States economic interests** Each chief of mission to a foreign country shall have as a principal duty the promotion of United States economic and commercial interests in such country.

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38 U.S.C. § 3501 — Definitions

**(a)** For the purposes of this chapter and chapter 36 of this title— (1) The term “eligible person” means any of the following: (A) A child of a person who, as a result of qualifying service— (i) died of a service-connected disability; or (ii) has a total disability permanent in nature resulting from a service-connected disability, or who died while a disability so evaluated was in existence. (B) The surviving spouse of any person who died of a service-connected disability sustained during a period of qualifying service. (C) The spouse or child of any member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who, at the time of application for benefits under this chapter is listed, pursuant to [section 556 of title 37](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section556&num=0&edition=prelim) and regulations issued thereunder, by the Secretary concerned in one or more of the following categories and has been so listed for a total of more than ninety days: (i) missing in action, (ii) captured in line of duty by a hostile force, or (iii) forcibly detained or interned in line of duty by a foreign government or power. (D) (i) The spouse of any person who has a total disability permanent in nature resulting from a service-connected disability sustained during a period of qualifying service, or (ii) the surviving spouse of a veteran who died while a disability so evaluated was in existence. (E) The spouse or child of a person who— (i) at the time of the Secretary’s determination under clause (ii), is a member of the Armed Forces who is hospitalized or receiving outpatient medical care, services, or treatment; (ii) the Secretary determines has a total disability permanent in nature incurred or aggravated in the line

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38 U.S.C. § 3532 — Computation of educational assistance allowance

**(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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22 U.S.C. § 3976 — Survivors’ and dependents’ educational

Page 1453 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 3981 (b) Other executive agencies The head of an executive agency shall provide the additional payment authorized by this sec- tion, consistent with the provisions set forth in subsection (a), with respect to any employee of that agency or of an individual in a special cat- egory serving in an uncompensated capacity for that agency who dies as a result of injuries sus- tained while on duty abroad because of an act of terrorism, as defined in section 2656f(d) of this title, while subject to the authority of the chief of mission pursuant to section 3927 of this title. (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 415, as added Pub. L. 113–76, div. K, title VII, § 7082(b)(1), Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 565; amended Pub. L. 114–113, div. K, title VII, § 7034(d)(5)(A), Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2763; Pub. L. 115–31, div. J, title VII, § 7034(k)(8), May 5, 2017, 131 Stat. 651.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 2656f(d) of this title, referred to in subsecs. (a)(1) and (b), was in the original ‘‘section 140(d) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999’’, and was translated as meaning ‘‘section 140(d) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fis- cal Years 1988 and 1989’’, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. AMENDMENTS 2017—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 115–31, which directed amendment by adding ‘‘The group life insurance sup- plement employee benefit paid or scheduled to be paid pursuant to this section should not be used to reduce any other payment to which a recipient is otherwise el- igible under Federal law.’’ in par. (1) without specifying a particular location, was executed by inserting the amendment at the end of par. (1) to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

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