---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3484"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3484"
heading: "Apprenticeship or other on-job training; correspondence courses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3484"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 34 — Veterans’ Educational Assistance"
  - "Subchapter IV — Payments to Eligible Veterans; Veteran-Student Services"
---

# §3484. Apprenticeship or other on-job training; correspondence courses


Any [eligible veteran](/usc/38/3202.md?p=1-A) may pursue a program of apprenticeship or other on-job training or a [program of education](/usc/38/3002.md?p=3) exclusively by correspondence and be paid an educational assistance allowance or training assistance allowance, as applicable, under the provisions of section [3687](/usc/38/3687.md) or [3686](/usc/38/3686.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 92–540, title III, § 304, Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1081, § 1684; renumbered § 3484 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1684 of this title as this section and substituted “3687 or 3686” for “1787 or 1786”.