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§3325 Reporting requirement

Title 38 › Part PART III— - READJUSTMENT AND RELATED BENEFITS › Chapter CHAPTER 33— - POST–9/11 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 3325

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each academic year the Secretary of Defense must send Congress a report about how the education benefit program in this chapter is working, and a report that covers that program plus the program under chapter 35. The reports must say whether the benefit amounts are enough to recruit and keep people in the Armed Forces and to help pay for education. They must say if offering benefits to people not yet on active duty is needed to keep well-qualified forces. The reports must describe efforts to tell service members about active-duty rules for getting benefits and the results. They must show how much the benefits were used and how much was spent, list student outcomes like credit hours, certificates, and degrees earned, include information received under section 3326, and give any administrative or legislative recommendations the Secretary thinks are appropriate. No report is required after January 1, 2021.

Full Legal Text

Title 38, §3325

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(a)For each academic year—
(1)the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the operation of the program provided for in this chapter; and
(2)the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the operation of the program provided for in this chapter and the program provided for under chapter 35 of this title.
(b)The Secretary of Defense shall include in each report submitted under this section—
(1)information—
(A)indicating the extent to which the benefit levels provided under this chapter are adequate to achieve the purposes of inducing individuals to enter and remain in the Armed Forces and of providing an adequate level of financial assistance to help meet the cost of pursuing a program of education;
(B)indicating whether it is necessary for the purposes of maintaining adequate levels of well-qualified active-duty personnel in the Armed Forces to continue to offer the opportunity for educational assistance under this chapter to individuals who have not yet entered active-duty service; and
(C)describing the efforts under section 3323(b) of this title to inform members of the Armed Forces of the active duty service requirements for entitlement to educational assistance under this chapter and the results from such efforts; and
(2)such recommendations for administrative and legislative changes regarding the provision of educational assistance to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and their dependents, as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate.
(c)The Secretary shall include in each report submitted under this section—
(1)information concerning the level of utilization of educational assistance and of expenditures under this chapter and under chapter 35 of this title;
(2)appropriate student outcome measures, such as the number of credit hours, certificates, degrees, and other qualifications earned by beneficiaries under this chapter and chapter 35 of this title during the academic year covered by the report;
(3)the information received by the Secretary under section 3326 of this title; and
(4)such recommendations for administrative and legislative changes regarding the provision of educational assistance to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and their dependents, as the Secretary considers appropriate.
(d)No report shall be required under this section after January 1, 2021.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2016—Subsec. (c)(3), (4). Pub. L. 114–315 added par. (3) and redesignated former par. (3) as (4).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2016 Amendment Pub. L. 114–315, title IV, § 404(c), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1554, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [enacting section 3326 of this title and amending this section] shall take effect on the date that is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 16, 2016].” Deadline for Submittal of First Report Pub. L. 112–154, title IV, § 402(a)(3), Aug. 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 1189, provided that: “The first reports required under section 3325 of title 38, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1), shall be submitted by not later than November 1, 2013.”

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Citation

38 U.S.C. § 3325

Title 38Veterans' Benefits

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73