---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3537"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3537"
heading: "Work-study allowance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3537"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 35 — Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance"
  - "Subchapter IV — Payments to Eligible Persons"
---

# §3537. Work-study allowance

- (a) Subject to [subsection (b)](#b) of this section, the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) shall utilize, in connection with the activities described in [section 3485(a) of this title](/usc/38/3485.md?p=a), the services of any [eligible person](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-1) who is pursuing, in a [State](/usc/38/4101.md?p=6), at least a three-quarter-time [program of education](/usc/38/3002.md?p=3) (other than a course of [special restorative training](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-7)) and shall pay to such person an additional educational assistance allowance (hereinafter in this section referred to as “work-study allowance”) in return for such [eligible person](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-1)’s agreement to perform such services. The amount of the work-study allowance shall be determined in accordance with [section 3485(a) of this title](/usc/38/3485.md?p=a).
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8)’s utilization of, and payment of a work-study allowance for, the services of an [eligible person](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-1) pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) of this section shall be subject to the same requirements, terms, and conditions as are set out in [section 3485 of this title](/usc/38/3485.md) with regard to individuals pursuing at least three-quarter-time programs of education referred to in [subsection (b)](/usc/38/3485.md?p=b) of such section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–237, title IV, § 406(a)(1), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2082, § 1737; renumbered § 3537 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406; Pub. L. 107–14, § 8(a)(16), June 5, 2001, 115 Stat. 35.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2001—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–14 substituted “hereinafter” for “hereafter”.

1991—Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), renumbered section 1737 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted “3485(a)” for “1685(a)” in two places.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted “3485” for “1685”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 101–237, title IV, § 406(b), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2082, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [enacting this section] shall take effect on May 1, 1990.”