---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2145"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2145"
heading: "Adjustments of amount of educational assistance and of subsistence allowance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2145"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 106A — Educational Assistance for Persons Enlisting for Active Duty"
---

# §2145. Adjustments of amount of educational assistance and of subsistence allowance

- (a) Once each year, the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall adjust the amount of educational assistance which may be provided to any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) in any standard academic year under [section 2143 of this title](/usc/10/2143.md), and the amount of the subsistence allowance authorized under [section 2144 of this title](/usc/10/2144.md) for pursuit of a course of instruction on a full-time basis, in a manner consistent with the change over the preceding twelve-month period in the average actual cost of attendance at public institutions of higher education.
- (b) In this section, the term “actual cost of attendance” has the meaning given the term “cost of attendance” by section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ([20 U.S.C. 1087ll](/usc/20/1087ll.md)).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–342, title IX, § 901(a), Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1113; amended Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title XII, § 1231(18)(A), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1161; Pub. L. 103–35, title II, § 201(c)(2), May 31, 1993, 107 Stat. 98.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1993—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–35 substituted “has the meaning given the term ‘cost of attendance’ by section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087ll)” for “means the actual cost of attendance as determined by the Secretary of Education pursuant to section 411(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(a)(2)(B)(iv))”.

1987—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–180 inserted “the term” after “In this section,”.