---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3514"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3514"
heading: "Processing of applications"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3514"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 35 — Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance"
  - "Subchapter II — Eligibility and Entitlement"
---

# §3514. Processing of applications

- (a) Further processing of an application for educational assistance and the award of such assistance shall be pursuant to the requirements of subchapters III and IV of this chapter unless the [parent](/usc/38/101.md?p=5) or [guardian](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-4) requests [special restorative training](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-7) for the [eligible person](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-1), in which case the application will be processed under subchapter V of this chapter.
- (b) If the request for [special restorative training](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-7) is approved, educational assistance will be afforded pursuant to the terms of subchapter V of this chapter. If the request for [special restorative training](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-7) is disapproved, or if approved the restorative training is completed or discontinued, any educational assistance subsequently afforded will be in accordance with subchapters III and IV of this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1195, § 1714; renumbered § 3514, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1714 of this title as this section.