VET Extension Act of 2025

(1) Individuals who are entitled to educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance program of the Department of Veterans Affairs who require remedial and deficiency courses exhaust their entitlement before completing a program of education with such assistance.

(2) Members of the Armed Forces who are entitled to educational assistance under such program and who do not have dependents while serving as members of the Armed Forces are not able to transfer their entitlement to such assistance when they come to have dependents.

Section 3312 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

In the case of an individual who is eligible under paragraph (2), the number of months of educational assistance under section 3313 of this title to which the individual is entitled under this section is increased by the lesser of the following:

(A) 15 months.

(B) The number of months required to complete the remedial and deficiency courses necessary to complete the program of education the individual is pursuing on a full-time basis, as determined by the Secretary.

For purposes of this section, an eligible individual is an individual who—

(A) was entitled to educational assistance under section 3311 of this title but has used all of such individual’s entitlement;

(B) during the 180-day period preceding the date of the determination of eligibility under this subsection, used any of such entitlement; and

(C) is pursuing the completion of a program of education at an institution of higher learning and—

(i) has completed, or attempted to complete, a remedial or deficiency course necessary to complete such program of education; and

(ii) requires more than the standard 120 semester (or 180 quarter) credit hours for completion of such program of education.

In this subsection:

(A) The term institution of higher learning has the meaning given such term in section 3452 of this title.

(B) The term remedial or deficiency course means a course offered by an institution of higher learning that is designed to overcome a deficiency.

Title 38, United States Code, is further amended—

(1) in section 3312(a), by striking subsections (b) and (c) and inserting subsections (b), (c), and (d); and

(2) in section 3695, by adding at the end the following new subsection:

(d) Notwithstanding subsection (a), in the case of an individual who is entitled to additional months of educational assistance under section 3312(d) of this title, the aggregate period for which such individual may receive assistance under two or more of the provisions of law referred to in such subsection may not exceed the sum of—

(1) 48 months (or the part-time equivalent thereof), and

(2) the number of months of entitlement received by such individual under section 3312(d) of this title.

(1) in subsection (e)—

(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and indenting such subparagraphs appropriately;

(B) in the matter before subparagraph (A), as redesignated by subparagraph (A), by striking An and inserting the following:

An

(B) ; and

(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph (2):

An individual who does not have an eligible dependent may elect to transfer a portion of the individual’s entitlement to an unspecified future dependent. In the case of such an election, the individual shall make the designations required by paragraph (1) when the individual comes to have an eligible dependent to whom the individual would like to transfer entitlement under this section.

(C) ; and

(2) in subsection (f)—

(A) by striking paragraph (1);

(B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively; and

(C) in paragraph (1)(A), as redesignated by subparagraph (B), by inserting, including by designating a new dependent or dependents to whom to transfer the individual’s entitlement before the period.