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 PUBLIC LAW 102-568—OCT. 29, 1992 106 STAT. 4321 Sec. 317. Clarification of permitted changes in programs of education. Sec. 318. Authority of members of Selected Reserve to receive tutorial assistance. Sec. 319. Requirement of attendance certification in apprenticeship program under the Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve program. Sec. 320. Technical amendments. TITLE IV—VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND PENSION PROGRAMS Sec. 401. Permanent authority for program of vocational rehabilitation for certain service-disabled veterans. Sec. 402. Extension of program of vocational training for certain pension recipients. Sec. 403. Permanent authority for protection of health-care eligibility for certain pension recipients. Sec. 404. Vocational rehabilitation for certain service-disabled veterans with serious employment handicaps. Sec. 405. Increase in subsistence allowance for veterans participating in a rehabilitation program. TITLE V—JOB COUNSEUNG, TRAINING, AND PLACEMENT SERVICES FOR VETERANS Sec. 501. Improvement of disabled veterans' outreach program. Sec. 502. Repeal of delimiting date relating to treatment of veterans of the Vietnam Era for disabled veterans' outreach program purposes. Sec. 503. Disabled veterans' outreach program priorities. Sec. 504. Repeal of requirement that to be represented on advisory committee on veterans employment and training a veterans organization must have a Federal charter. Sec. 505. Expansion and extension of veterans readjustment appointments with the Federal Government. Sec. 506. Redesignation of sections of chapter 43. TITLE VI—OTHER VETERANS' PROGRAMS Sec. 601. Extension of limitation on pension for veterans receiving medicaid-cov - ered nursing home care; applicability to surviving spouses; and facility expenses. Sec. 602. Extension of authority to carry out income verification. Sec. 603. Access to information necessary for the administration of certain veterans benefits laws. Sec. 604. Extension of expiring cost-recovery authority. Sec. 605. Exclusion for low-income veterans from medication copayment requirement. Sec. 606. Extension of copayment programs. SEC. 2. REFERENCES TO TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE. Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to or repeal of a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of title 38, United States Code. TITLE I—REFORM OF THE DEPEND- gEnlt7^"'^ ENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSA- SrActTf TION PROGRAM 1992. SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the "Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Reform Act of 1992". SEC. 102. REFORM IN PAYMENT FORMULA. (a) SURVIVING SPOUSE BASIC RATE.—Subsection (a) of section 1311 is amended by striking out the matter preceding the table and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(a)(1) Dependency and indemnity compensation shall be paid to a surviving spouse at the monthly rate of $750. 38 USC 101 note.

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