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[CITE: 38USC3500]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
               PART III--READJUSTMENT AND RELATED BENEFITS
 
      CHAPTER 35--SURVIVORS' AND DEPENDENTS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
 
                        SUBCHAPTER I--DEFINITIONS
 
Sec. 3500. Purpose

    The Congress hereby declares that the educational program 
established by this chapter is for the purpose of providing 
opportunities for education to children whose education would otherwise 
be impeded or interrupted by reason of the disability or death of a 
parent from a disease or injury incurred or aggravated in the Armed 
Forces after the beginning of the Spanish-American War, and for the 
purpose of aiding such children in attaining the educational status 
which they might normally have aspired to and obtained but for the 
disability or death of such parent. The Congress further declares that 
the educational program extended to the surviving spouses of veterans 
who died of service-connected disabilities and to spouses of veterans 
with a service-connected total disability permanent in nature is for the 
purpose of assisting them in preparing to support themselves and their 
families at a standard of living level which the veteran, but for the 
veteran's death or service disability, could have expected to provide 
for the veteran's family.

(Added Pub. L. 90-631, Sec. 2(a)(1), Oct. 23, 1968, 82 Stat. 1331, 
Sec. 1700; amended Pub. L. 94-502, title III, Sec. 310(1), Oct. 15, 
1976, 90 Stat. 2391; renumbered Sec. 3500, Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), 
Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 1700 of this title as this 
section.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-502 substituted ``surviving spouses'' for 
``widows'', ``spouses'' for ``wives'', and ``the veteran's'' for ``his'' 
in two places.


                    Effective Date of 1976 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 94-502 effective Oct. 15, 1976, see section 
703(b) of Pub. L. 94-502, set out as an Effective Date note under 
section 3693 of this title.


                             Effective Date

    Section 6(a) of Pub. L. 90-631 provided that: ``The amendments made 
by the first section and sections 2, 3, and 5 of this Act [see Tables 
for classification] shall take effect on the first day of the second 
calendar month which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act 
[Oct. 23, 1968].''
