---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.148"
title: "38"
number: "21.148"
heading: "Tutorial assistance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.148"
---

# §21.148. Tutorial assistance.

- (a) **General.** A veteran may be provided individualized tutorial assistance, if VA determines that special assistance beyond that ordinarily given by the facility to students pursuing the same or a similar subject is needed to correct a deficiency in a subject.
- (b) **Authorization of tutorial assistance.** Tutorial assistance may be provided during any period of rehabilitation services authorized by VA.
- (c) **Use of relatives precluded.** Tutorial assistance at VA expense may not be provided by a relative of the veteran. The term relative has the same meaning as under [§ 21.374](/cfr/38/21.374.md) pertaining to the use of a relative as an attendant.
- (d) **Payment at the Chapter 30 rate.** If a veteran has elected payment at the educational assistance rate payable under Chapter 30, he or she may not be provided individualized tutorial assistance under provision of Chapter 31. (See [§ 21.334](/cfr/38/21.334.md).)

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 40814, Oct. 18, 1984, as amended at 54 FR 4283, Jan. 30, 1989; 57 FR 57108, Dec. 3, 1992]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a), chs. 18, 31, and as noted in specific sections.

### Source

Source: 49 FR 40814, Oct. 18, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[49 FR 40814, Oct. 18, 1984, as amended at 54 FR 4283, Jan. 30, 1989; 57 FR 57108, Dec. 3, 1992]