---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.5290"
title: "38"
number: "21.5290"
heading: "Educational Assistance Pilot Program."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.5290"
---

# §21.5290. Educational Assistance Pilot Program.

- (a) **Purpose.** The Educational Assistance Pilot Program is designed to encourage enlistments and reenlistments in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.
- (b) **Outline of program.** This program allows some individuals:
  - (1) To participate while making contributions at a rate less than that prescribed in [§ 21.5052(b)](/cfr/38/21.5052.md?p=b), and/or
  - (2) To transfer entitlement allowed in [§ 21.5071](/cfr/38/21.5071.md) to a spouse or child.

## Notes

### Amendments

[47 FR 51747, Nov. 17, 1982]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a), chs. 32, 36, and as noted in specific sections.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 31, Jan. 2, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[47 FR 51747, Nov. 17, 1982]