---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.4236"
title: "38"
number: "21.4236"
heading: "Tutorial assistance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.4236"
---

# §21.4236. Tutorial assistance.

- (a) **Enrollment.** A veteran or eligible person may receive supplemental monetary assistance to provide tutorial services if he or she:
  - (1) Is pursuing a post-secondary educational program on a half-time or more basis at an educational institution, and
  - (2) Has a deficiency in a subject which is indispensable to the satisfactory pursuit of an approved program of education.
- (b) **Approval.** The Department of Veterans Affairs will grant approval when:
  - (1) **The educational institution certifies that—**
    - (i) Individualized tutorial assistance is essential to correct a deficiency in a specified subject or subjects required as a part of, or which is prerequisite to, or which is indispensable to the satisfactory pursuit of an approved program of education;
    - (ii) **The tutor selected—**
      - (A) Is qualified, and
      - (B) Is not the parent, spouse, child, brother or sister of the veteran or eligible person; and
    - (iii) The charges for this assistance do not exceed the customary charges for such tutorial assistance; and
  - (2) **The assistance is furnished on an individual basis.**
- (c) **Limits on tutorial assistance.**
  - (1) VA will authorize the cost of tutorial assistance in an amount not to exceed $100 per month.
  - (2) The total amount of all tutorial assistance provided under this section will not exceed $1200.
- (d) **Entitlement charge.** VA will make no charge against the veteran's or eligible person's entitlement to educational assistance for any amount of tutorial assistance authorized.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 37989, Aug. 22, 1983, as amended at 50 FR 19935, May 13, 1985; 55 FR 28027, July 9, 1990; 61 FR 26114, May 24, 1996; 74 FR 14670, Mar. 31, 2009]

### Authority

Authority: 10 U.S.C. 2141 note, ch. 1606; 38 U.S.C. 501(a), chs. 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, and as noted in specific sections.

### Source

Source: 31 FR 6774, May 6, 1966, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 37989, Aug. 22, 1983, as amended at 50 FR 19935, May 13, 1985; 55 FR 28027, July 9, 1990; 61 FR 26114, May 24, 1996; 74 FR 14670, Mar. 31, 2009]