---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2183"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2183"
heading: "Educational assistance: former captives"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2183"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 110 — Educational Assistance for Members Held as Captives and Their Dependents"
---

# §2183. Educational assistance: former captives

- (a) In order to respond to special circumstances, the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) (by advancement or reimbursement) a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who is a [former captive](/usc/10/2181.md?p=1) for expenses incurred, while attending an educational or [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) institution, for—
  - (1) subsistence;
  - (2) tuition;
  - (3) fees;
  - (4) [supplies](/usc/10/3011.md?p=8);
  - (5) books;
  - (6) equipment; and
  - (7) other educational expenses.
- (b) Except as provided in [section 2184 of this title](/usc/10/2184.md), payments shall be available under this section for a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who is a [former captive](/usc/10/2181.md?p=1) for education or [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) that occurs—
  - (1) after the termination of the status of that [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) as a captive; and
  - (2) on or before—
    - (A) the end of any semester or quarter (as appropriate) that begins before the end of the 10-year period beginning on the date on which the status of that [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) as a captive terminates; or
    - (B) if the educational or [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) institution is not operated on a semester or quarter system, the earlier of the end of any course that began before such date or the end of the 16-week period following that date.
- (c) Payments shall be available under this section only to the extent that such payments are not otherwise authorized by law.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–399, title VIII, § 806(d)(1), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 888.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable with respect to persons whose captive status begins after Jan. 21, 1981, see section 806(d)(3) of Pub. L. 99–399, set out as a note under 2181 of this title.