---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3233"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3233"
heading: "Apprenticeship or other on-job training"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3233"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 32 — Post-Vietnam Era Veterans’ Educational Assistance"
  - "Subchapter III — Entitlement; Duration"
---

# §3233. Apprenticeship or other on-job training

- (a) Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b) of this section, the amount of the monthly [benefit](/usc/38/4303.md?p=2) payment to an individual pursuing a full-time program of apprenticeship or other on-job training under this chapter is—
  - (1) for each of the first six months of the individual’s pursuit of such program, 75 percent of the monthly [benefit](/usc/38/4303.md?p=2) payment otherwise payable to such individual under this chapter;
  - (2) for each of the second six months of the individual’s pursuit of such program, 55 percent of such monthly [benefit](/usc/38/4303.md?p=2) payment; and
  - (3) for each of the months following the first 12 months of the individual’s pursuit of such program, 35 percent of such monthly [benefit](/usc/38/4303.md?p=2) payment.
- (b) In any month in which an individual pursuing a [program of education](/usc/38/3002.md?p=3) consisting of a program of apprenticeship or other on-job training fails to complete 120 hours of training, the amount of the monthly [benefit](/usc/38/4303.md?p=2) payment payable under this chapter to the individual shall be limited to the same proportion of the applicable rate determined under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section as the number of hours worked during such month, rounded to the nearest eight hours, bears to 120 hours.
- (c) For each month that an individual is paid a monthly [benefit](/usc/38/4303.md?p=2) payment under this chapter, the individual’s entitlement under this chapter shall be charged at the rate of—
  - (1) 75 percent of a month in the case of payments made in accordance with [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1) of this section;
  - (2) 55 percent of a month in the case of payments made in accordance with [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2) of this section; and
  - (3) 35 percent of a month in the case of payments made in accordance with [subsection (a)(3)](#a-3) of this section.
- (d) For any month in which an individual fails to complete 120 hours of training, the entitlement otherwise chargeable under [subsection (c)](#c) of this section shall be reduced in the same proportion as the monthly [benefit](/usc/38/4303.md?p=2) payment payable is reduced under [subsection (b)](#b) of this section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–576, title III, § 310(b)(2), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3271, § 1633; amended Pub. L. 101–237, title IV, § 423(a)(7), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2091; renumbered § 3233, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1633 of this title as this section.

1989—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 101–237 added subsec. (d).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Increase in Benefit for Individuals Pursuing Apprenticeship or On-Job Training; Post-Vietnam Era Veterans’ Educational Assistance

Pub. L. 108–454, title I, § 103(b), Dec. 10, 2004, 118 Stat. 3600, provided that: “For months beginning on or after October 1, 2005, and before January 1, 2008, subsection (a) of section 3233 of title 38, United States Code, shall be applied as if— the reference to ‘75 percent’ in paragraph (1) were a reference to ‘85 percent’; the reference to ‘55 percent’ in paragraph (2) were a reference to ‘65 percent’; and the reference to ‘35 percent’ in paragraph (3) were a reference to ‘45 percent’.”