---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7697"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7697"
heading: "Relationship to Educational Assistance Program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7697"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 76 — Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program"
---

# §7697. Relationship to Educational Assistance Program


Assistance under the Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program may be in addition to other assistance available to individuals under the Educational Assistance Program.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–182, title III, § 303(a), June 6, 2018, 132 Stat. 1466.)