---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1814"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1814"
heading: "Vocational training"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1814"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 18 — Benefits for Children of Vietnam Veterans and Certain Other Veterans"
  - "Subchapter II — Children of Women Vietnam Veterans Born with Certain Birth Defects"
---

# §1814. Vocational training

- (a) **Authority.—** The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may provide a program of vocational training to an [eligible child](/usc/38/1811.md?p=1) if the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) determines that the achievement of a vocational goal by the [child](/usc/38/1831.md?p=1) is reasonably feasible.
- (b) **Applicable Provisions.—** Subsections (b) through (e) of [section 1804 of this title](/usc/38/1804.md) shall apply with respect to any program of vocational training provided under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–419, title IV, § 401(a), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1858.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1814 was renumbered section 3714 of this title.

Another prior section 1814, Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1211, Pub. L. 86–665, § 3, July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 531; Pub. L. 87–84, § 1(c), July 6, 1961, 75 Stat. 201, automatically guaranteed loans made to a veteran if made for the purpose of refinancing delinquent indebtedness, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 93–569, § 7(a), Dec. 31, 1974, 88 Stat. 1866.