---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2148"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2148"
heading: "Duration of entitlement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2148"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 106A — Educational Assistance for Persons Enlisting for Active Duty"
---

# §2148. Duration of entitlement


The entitlement of any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to educational assistance under this chapter expires at the end of the ten-year period beginning on the date of the retirement or discharge or other separation from [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) of the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) upon whose service such entitlement is based. In the case of a member entitled to educational assistance under this chapter who dies while on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) and whose entitlement is transferred to a [spouse](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-5) or [dependent](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) [child](/usc/10/1072.md?p=6), such entitlement expires at the end of the ten-year period beginning on the date of such member’s death.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–342, title IX, § 901(a), Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1114.)