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Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits

Part III · Chapter 35 — Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance

§ 3562. Nonduplication of benefits

Statutory text

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

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 85–857 · 72 Stat. 1105

    Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 3562

    Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1201, § 1762

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1201, § 1762

  2. Pub. L. 88–361 § 4 · 78 Stat. 297

    Inserted · 38 U.S.C. § 3562(a)

    Pub. L. 88–361 inserted “whether eligibility is based upon the death or upon the total permanent disability of the parent”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 88–361 inserted “whether eligibility is based upon the death or upon the total permanent disability of the parent”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. Section 1762(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding the following clause before the period at the end thereof: “whether eligibility is based upon the death or upon the total permanent disability of the parent”.

  3. Veterans

    Pub. L. 89–358 § 3(a)(2) · 80 Stat. 12

    Redesignated · 38 U.S.C. § 3562

    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

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    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.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) deleting in section 1762, “(a)” and subsection (b) in its entirety;

  4. Pub. L. 102–83 § 5(a) · 105 Stat. 378

    Changed · 38 U.S.C. § 3562

    Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1762 of this title as this section

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1762 of this title as this section.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Redesignation of Sections to Conform to Chapter Numbers.— Each section contained in any of chapters 11 through 23 is redesignated by replacing the first digit of the section number with the number of the chapter containing that section. Each section contained in any of chapters 24 through 42 is redesignated so that the first two digits of the section number of that section are the same as the chapter number of the chapter containing that section.

3 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments1964–1991 · 3 rounds

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”.

Credits

1958–1991 · 4 acts
  1. 1958Pub. L. 85–857, , 72 Stat. 1201, § 1762
  2. 1964Pub. L. 88–361, § 4, , 78 Stat. 298
  3. 1966Pub. L. 89–358, § 3(a)(2), , 80 Stat. 20
  4. 1991renumbered § 3562, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), , 105 Stat. 406.
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(Pub. L. 85–857, , 72 Stat. 1201, § 1762; Pub. L. 88–361, § 4, , 78 Stat. 298; Pub. L. 89–358, § 3(a)(2), , 80 Stat. 20; renumbered § 3562, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), , 105 Stat. 406.)

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