---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3564"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3564"
heading: "Annual adjustment of amounts of educational assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3564"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 35 — Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance"
  - "Subchapter VI — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §3564. Annual adjustment of amounts of educational assistance

- (a) With respect to any fiscal year, the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) shall provide a percentage increase in the rates payable under sections [3532](/usc/38/3532.md), [3534(b)](/usc/38/3534.md?p=b), and [3542(a)](/usc/38/3542.md?p=a) of this title equal to the percentage by which—
  - (1) the Consumer Price Index (all items, United States city average) for the 12-month period ending on the June 30 preceding the beginning of the fiscal year for which the increase is made, exceeds
  - (2) such Consumer Price Index for the 12-month period preceding the 12-month period described in [paragraph (1)](#a-1).
- (b) Any increase under [subsection (a)](#a) in a rate with respect to a fiscal year after fiscal year 2004 and before fiscal year 2014 shall be rounded down to the next lower whole dollar amount. Any such increase with respect to a fiscal year after fiscal year 2013 shall be rounded to the nearest whole dollar amount.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–419, title I, § 111(f)(1)(A), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1831; amended Pub. L. 108–183, title III, § 304(b), Dec. 16, 2003, 117 Stat. 2660.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2003—Pub. L. 108–183 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), struck out “(rounded to the nearest dollar)” after “percentage increase”, and added subsec. (b).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 106–419, title I, § 111(f)(3), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1831, as amended by Pub. L. 107–14, § 8(b)(1), June 5, 2001, 115 Stat. 36, provided that: “Sections 3564 and 3687(d) of title 38, United States Code, as added by this subsection, shall take effect on October 1, 2001.”