Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§2145 Adjustments of Amount of Educational Assistance and of Subsistence Allowance
Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART III — TRAINING AND EDUCATION › CHAPTER 106A — EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS ENLISTING FOR ACTIVE DUTY › § 2145
Summary
Once each year, the Secretary of Defense must change the yearly education benefit amount and the full-time living allowance so they match how the average actual cost of attendance at public colleges and universities changed during the past 12 months. “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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102