Title 38, Veterans' BenefitsRelease 119-102
§3562 Nonduplication of Benefits
Title 38 › PART III — READJUSTMENT AND RELATED BENEFITS › CHAPTER 35 — SURVIVORS’ AND DEPENDENTS’ EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE › SUBCHAPTER VI — MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 3562
Summary
Starting education or special training stops later VA comp., DIC, or pension to an eligible person (over 18) for being in school and blocks increases tied to that person when the parent's benefit is for death or total permanent disability.
Full Legal Text
Title 38, §3562
Veterans' Benefits, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The commencement of a program of education or special restorative training under this chapter shall be a bar (1) to subsequent payments of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension based on the death of a parent to an eligible person over the age of eighteen by reason of pursuing a course in an educational institution, or (2) to increased rates, or additional amounts, of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension because of such a person whether eligibility is based upon the death or upon the total permanent disability of the parent.
Legislative History
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Amendments
1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1762 of this title as this section. 1966—Pub. L. 89–358 redesignated former subsec. (a) as the entire section and deleted former subsec. (b) which prohibited payment of educational assistance allowance or special training allowance on behalf of any eligible person for any period paid for under other provision of law where the payment would constitute a duplication of benefits and which is now incorporated in section 1781 of this title. 1964—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 88–361 inserted “whether eligibility is based upon the death or upon the total permanent disability of the parent”.
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38 U.S.C. § 3562
Title 38, Veterans' Benefits
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102