§3322 Bar to Duplication of Educational Assistance Benefits

Summary

You cannot get education benefits from more than one of the listed VA or military programs at the same time. If you qualify under this chapter and also under other programs named in law, you must choose which program to use and tell the VA in the form it requires. Certain special rules also apply. Time counted under the education loan repayment rules in chapter 109 of title 10 cannot be used to get benefits here. Service in the Selected Reserve can be credited to only one program, and you must pick which one. If you were eligible or making contributions as of August 1, 2009, coordination between programs is governed by section 5003(c) of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008. You cannot use transferred benefits from more than one person at once. If you are eligible for both transferred benefits (section 3319) and the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship (paragraph (8), (9), or (10) of section 3311), you must choose one. Starting the Fry Scholarship also stops certain dependency and indemnity compensation or pension payments or increases for an eligible person over 18 who is in school. An individual whose single period of active duty makes them eligible for multiple programs must pick which program that service will count toward. A child whose parent died on or after September 11, 2001 and who is eligible under chapter 35 or paragraph (8), (9), or (10) of section 3311 cannot receive both and must choose.