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‘‘(A) the Consumer Price Index (all items, 
United States city average) for the 12-month period 
ending on the June 30 preceding the beginning of 
the fiscal year for which the increase is made, ex-
ceeds 
‘‘(B) such Consumer Price Index for the 12- 
month period preceding the 12-month period de-
scribed in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(c) APPROVED PROGRAMS OF EDUCATION; MAX-
IMUM MONTHS OF ASSISTANCE.—(1) Educational assist-
ance may be provided under this subchapter for pursuit 
of any program of education that is an approved program 
of education for purposes of chapter 30 of this title. 
‘‘(2) Subject to section 3695 of this title, the max-
imum number of months of educational assistance that 
may be provided to any person under this subchapter is 
36 (or the equivalent thereof in part-time educational as-
sistance). 
‘‘(3)(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
subchapter or chapter 36 of this title, any payment of an 
educational assistance allowance described in subpara-
graph (B) of this paragraph shall not— 
‘‘(i) be charged against the entitlement of any 
individual under this subchapter; or
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‘‘(ii) be counted toward the aggregate period for 
which section 3695 of this title limits an individual’s 
receipt of assistance. 
‘‘(B) The payment of the educational assistance al-
lowance referred to in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph 
is the payment of such an allowance to the individual for 
pursuit of a course or courses under this subchapter if 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs finds that the indi-
vidual— 
‘‘(i) had to discontinue such course pursuit as 
a result of being ordered to serve on active duty 
under section 12301(a), 12301(d), 12301(g), 12302, 
or 12304 of title 10; and 
‘‘(ii) failed to receive credit or training time to-
ward completion of the individual’s approved edu-
cational, professional, or vocational objective as a re-
sult of having to discontinue, as described in clause 
(i), the individual’s course pursuit. 
‘‘(C) The period for which, by reason of this sub-
section, an educational assistance allowance is not charged 
against entitlement or counted toward the applicable ag-
gregate period under section 3695 of this title shall not 
exceed the portion of the period of enrollment in the 
course or courses for which the individual failed to receive
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credit or with respect to which the individual lost training 
time, as determined under subparagraph (B)(ii). 
‘‘(d) PROGRAMS OF APPRENTICESHIP.—(1) Except 
as provided in paragraph (2), the amount of the monthly 
educational assistance allowance payable to a person pur-
suing a full-time program of apprenticeship or other on- 
the-job training under this subchapter is— 
‘‘(A) for each of the first six months of the per-
son’s pursuit of such program, 75 percent of the 
monthly educational assistance allowance otherwise 
payable to such person under this subchapter; 
‘‘(B) for each of the second six months of the 
person’s pursuit of such program, 55 percent of such 
monthly educational assistance allowance; and 
‘‘(C) for each of the months following the first 
12 months of the person’s pursuit of such program, 
35 percent of such monthly educational assistance 
allowance. 
‘‘(2) In any month in which any person pursuing a 
program of education consisting of a program of appren-
ticeship or other on-the-job training fails to complete 120 
hours of training, the amount of the monthly educational 
assistance allowance payable under this subchapter to the 
person shall be limited to the same proportion of the appli-
cable full-time rate as the number of hours worked during
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such month, rounded to the nearest 8 hours, bears to 120 
hours. 
‘‘(3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), for 
each month that such person is paid a monthly edu-
cational assistance allowance under this subchapter, the 
person’s entitlement under this subchapter shall be 
charged at the rate of— 
‘‘(i) 75 percent of a month in the case of pay-
ments made in accordance with paragraph (1)(A); 
‘‘(ii) 55 percent of a month in the case of pay-
ments made in accordance with paragraph (1)(B); 
and 
‘‘(iii) 35 percent of a month in the case of pay-
ments made in accordance with paragraph (1)(C). 
‘‘(B) Any such charge to the entitlement shall be re-
duced proportionately in accordance with the reduction in 
payment under paragraph (2). 
‘‘(e) 
CORRESPONDENCE
COURSES.—(1)(A) 
The 
amount of the educational assistance allowance payable 
under this subchapter to a person who enters into an 
agreement to pursue, and is pursuing, a program of edu-
cation exclusively by correspondence is an amount equal 
to 55 percent of the established charge which the institu-
tion requires nonveterans to pay for the course or courses 
pursued by such person.
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‘‘(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term ‘es-
tablished charge’ means the lesser of— 
‘‘(i) the charge for the course or courses deter-
mined on the basis of the lowest extended time pay-
ment plan offered by the institution and approved by 
the appropriate State approving agency; or 
‘‘(ii) the actual charge to the person for such 
course or courses. 
‘‘(C) Such allowance shall be paid quarterly on a pro 
rata basis for the lessons completed by the person and 
serviced by the institution. 
‘‘(2) In each case in which the amount of educational 
assistance is determined under paragraph (1), the period 
of entitlement of the person concerned shall be charged 
with one month for each amount equal to the amount of 
the monthly rate payable under subsection (b)(1)(A) for 
the fiscal year concerned which is paid to the individual 
as an educational assistance allowance. 
‘‘(f) FLIGHT TRAINING.—(1) The Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs may approve the pursuit of flight training 
(in addition to a course of flight training that may be ap-
proved under section 3680A(b) of this title) by an indi-
vidual entitled to educational assistance under this sub-
chapter if—
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‘‘(A) such training is generally accepted as nec-
essary for the attainment of a recognized vocational 
objective in the field of aviation; 
‘‘(B) the individual possesses a valid private 
pilot certificate and meets, on the day the individual 
begins a course of flight training, the medical re-
quirements necessary for a commercial pilot certifi-
cate; and 
‘‘(C) the flight school courses meet Federal 
Aviation Administration standards for such courses 
and are approved by the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration and the State approving agency. 
‘‘(2) Each individual who is pursuing a program of 
education consisting exclusively of flight training approved 
as meeting the requirements of paragraph (1) shall be 
paid an educational assistance allowance under this sub-
chapter in the amount equal to 60 percent of the estab-
lished charges for tuition and fees which similarly 
circumstanced nonveterans enrolled in the same flight 
course are required to pay. 
‘‘(3) No educational assistance allowance may be paid 
under this subchapter to an individual for any month dur-
ing which such individual is pursuing a program of edu-
cation consisting exclusively of flight training until the 
Secretary has received from that individual and the insti-