---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3225"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3225"
heading: "Discharge or release under conditions which would bar the use of benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3225"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 32 — Post-Vietnam Era Veterans’ Educational Assistance"
  - "Subchapter II — Eligibility; Contributions; and Matching Fund"
---

# §3225. Discharge or release under conditions which would bar the use of benefits


If a [participant](/usc/38/3202.md?p=3) in the program is discharged or released from [active duty](/usc/38/3002.md?p=6) under dishonorable conditions, such [participant](/usc/38/3202.md?p=3) is automatically disenrolled and any contributions made by such [participant](/usc/38/3202.md?p=3) shall be refunded to such [participant](/usc/38/3202.md?p=3) on the date of such [participant](/usc/38/3202.md?p=3)’s [discharge or release](/usc/38/101.md?p=18) from [active duty](/usc/38/3002.md?p=6) or within 60 days from receipt of [notice](/usc/38/4303.md?p=8) by the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) of such [discharge or release](/usc/38/101.md?p=18), whichever is later.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 94–502, title IV, § 404, Oct. 15, 1976, 90 Stat. 2396, § 1625; amended Pub. L. 101–237, title IV, § 423(b)(1)(A), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2092; renumbered § 3225, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1625 of this title as this section.

1989—Pub. L. 101–237 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1977, see section 406 of Pub. L. 94–502, set out as a note under section 3201 of this title.