Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§2145 Adjustments of amount of educational assistance and of subsistence allowance

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART III— - TRAINING AND EDUCATION › Chapter CHAPTER 106A— - EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS ENLISTING FOR ACTIVE DUTY › § 2145

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each year, the Secretary of Defense must raise or lower the educational assistance under section 2143 and the living allowance under section 2144 for full‑time study so the amounts reflect how the average actual cost of attendance at public colleges changed over the preceding twelve‑month period. Actual cost of attendance means the “cost of attendance” defined in section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087ll).

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Title 10, §2145

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(a)Once each year, the Secretary of Defense shall adjust the amount of educational assistance which may be provided to any person in any standard academic year under section 2143 of this title, and the amount of the subsistence allowance authorized under section 2144 of this title for pursuit of a course of instruction on a full-time basis, in a manner consistent with the change over the preceding twelve-month period in the average actual cost of attendance at public institutions of higher education.

(b)In this section, the term “actual cost of attendance” has the meaning given the term “cost of attendance” by section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087ll).

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1993—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–35 substituted “has the meaning given the term ‘cost of attendance’ by section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087ll)” for “means the actual cost of attendance as determined by the Secretary of Education pursuant to section 411(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(a)(2)(B)(iv))”. 1987—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–180 inserted “the term” after “In this section,”.

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10 U.S.C. § 2145

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73