---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3490"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3490"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3490"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 34 — Veterans’ Educational Assistance"
  - "Subchapter V — Special Assistance for the Educationally Disadvantaged"
---

# §3490. Purpose


It is the purpose of this subchapter (1) to encourage and assist [veterans](/usc/38/3701.md?p=b-2) who have academic deficiencies to attain a high school education or its equivalent and to qualify for and pursue courses of higher education, (2) to assist [eligible veterans](/usc/38/3202.md?p=1-A) to pursue postsecondary education through tutorial assistance where required, and (3) to encourage [educational institutions](/usc/38/3002.md?p=8) to develop programs which provide special tutorial, remedial, preparatory, or other educational or supplementary assistance to such [veterans](/usc/38/3701.md?p=b-2).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 91–219, title II, § 204(a)(4), Mar. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 79, § 1690; renumbered § 3490, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1690 of this title as this section.