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[CITE: 38USC3233]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
               PART III--READJUSTMENT AND RELATED BENEFITS
 
      CHAPTER 32--POST-VIETNAM ERA VETERANS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
 
                  SUBCHAPTER III--ENTITLEMENT; DURATION
 
Sec. 3233. Apprenticeship or other on-job training

    (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the amount 
of the monthly benefit payment to an individual pursuing a full-time 
program of apprenticeship or other on-job training under this chapter 
is--
        (1) for each of the first six months of the individual's pursuit 
    of such program, 75 percent of the monthly benefit payment otherwise 
    payable to such individual under this chapter;
        (2) for each of the second six months of the individual's 
    pursuit of such program, 55 percent of such monthly benefit payment; 
    and
        (3) for each of the months following the first 12 months of the 
    individual's pursuit of such program, 35 percent of such monthly 
    benefit payment.

    (b) In any month in which an individual pursuing a program of 
education consisting of a program of apprenticeship or other on-job 
training fails to complete 120 hours of training, the amount of the 
monthly benefit payment payable under this chapter to the individual 
shall be limited to the same proportion of the applicable rate 
determined under subsection (a) of this section as the number of hours 
worked during such month, rounded to the nearest eight hours, bears to 
120 hours.
    (c) For each month that an individual is paid a monthly benefit 
payment under this chapter, the individual's entitlement under this 
chapter shall be charged at the rate of--
        (1) 75 percent of a month in the case of payments made in 
    accordance with subsection (a)(1) of this section;
        (2) 55 percent of a month in the case of payments made in 
    accordance with subsection (a)(2) of this section; and
        (3) 35 percent of a month in the case of payments made in 
    accordance with subsection (a)(3) of this section.

    (d) For any month in which an individual fails to complete 120 hours 
of training, the entitlement otherwise chargeable under subsection (c) 
of this section shall be reduced in the same proportion as the monthly 
benefit payment payable is reduced under subsection (b) of this section.

(Added Pub. L. 99-576, title III, Sec. 310(b)(2), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 
Stat. 3271, Sec. 1633; amended Pub. L. 101-237, title IV, 
Sec. 423(a)(7), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2091; renumbered Sec. 3233, 
Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 1633 of this title as this 
section.
    1989--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 101-237 added subsec. (d).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 3231 of this title.
