Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§4025 Training grants

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 52— - FOREIGN SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - CAREER DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND ORIENTATION › § 4025

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can give grants (either up front or by paying people back) to family members who attend approved study programs. Grants cannot be more than the actual necessary costs of attending. If a service member assigned abroad or a family member cannot use government language training, the Secretary can pay all or part of the cost of language classes at a public or private school when the classes are for the overseas assignment.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §4025

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(a)To facilitate training provided to members of families of Government employees under this subchapter, the Secretary may make grants (by advance payment or by reimbursement) to family members attending approved programs of study. No such grant may exceed the amount actually expended for necessary costs incurred in conjunction with such attendance.

(b)If a member of the Service who is assigned abroad, or a member of his or her family, is unable to participate in language training furnished by the Government through the institution or otherwise, the Secretary may compensate that individual for all or part of the costs of language training, related to the assignment abroad, which is undertaken at a public or private institution.

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Amendments

1994—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–236 substituted “institution” for “Institute” after “through the”.

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22 U.S.C. § 4025

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73