---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3562"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3562"
heading: "Nonduplication of benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3562"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 35 — Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance"
  - "Subchapter VI — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §3562. Nonduplication of benefits


The commencement of a [program of education](/usc/38/3002.md?p=3) or [special restorative training](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-7) under this chapter shall be a bar (1) to subsequent payments of [compensation](/usc/38/101.md?p=13), [dependency and indemnity compensation](/usc/38/101.md?p=14), or [pension](/usc/38/101.md?p=15) based on the death of a [parent](/usc/38/101.md?p=5) to an [eligible person](/usc/38/3501.md?p=a-1) over the age of eighteen by reason of pursuing a course in an [educational institution](/usc/38/3002.md?p=8), or (2) to increased rates, or additional amounts, of [compensation](/usc/38/101.md?p=13), [dependency and indemnity compensation](/usc/38/101.md?p=14), or [pension](/usc/38/101.md?p=15) because of such a person whether eligibility is based upon the death or upon the total permanent disability of the [parent](/usc/38/101.md?p=5).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1201, § 1762; Pub. L. 88–361, § 4, July 7, 1964, 78 Stat. 298; Pub. L. 89–358, § 3(a)(2), Mar. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 20; renumbered § 3562, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1762 of this title as this section.

1966—Pub. L. 89–358 redesignated former subsec. (a) as the entire section and deleted former subsec. (b) which prohibited payment of educational assistance allowance or special training allowance on behalf of any eligible person for any period paid for under other provision of law where the payment would constitute a duplication of benefits and which is now incorporated in section 1781 of this title.

1964—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 88–361 inserted “whether eligibility is based upon the death or upon the total permanent disability of the parent”.