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PUBLIC LAW 634-JUNE 29, 1956

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Educational assistance allowances shall, insofar as practicable, be paid within twenty days after receipt by the Administrator of the certifications required by this subsection. COMPUTATION OF EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE ALLOWANCE

SEC. 309. (a) The educational assistance allowance on behalf of an eligible person who is pursuing a program of education consisting of institutional courses shall be computed at the rate of (1) $110 per month if pursued on a full-time basis, (2) $80 per month if pursued on a three-quarters time basis, and (3) $50 per month if pursued on a half-time basis. (b) The educational assistance allowance to be paid on behalf of an eligible person who is pursuing a full-time program of education which consists of institutional courses and alternate phases of training in a business or industrial establishment with the training in the business or industrial establishment being strictly supplemental to the institutional portion, shall be computed at the rate of $90 per month. (c) No educational assistance allowance shall be paid on behalf of an eligible person for any period during which he is enrolled in and pursunig an institutional course on a less than half-time basis, or any course described in subsection (b) on a less than full-time basis. MEASUREMENT or COURSES

SEC. 310. (a) For the purposes of this Act, (1) an institutional trade or technical course offered on a clock-hour basis below the college level involving shop practice as an integral part thereof, shall be considered a full-time course when a minimum of thirty hours per week of attendance is required with no more than two and one-half hours of rest periods per week allowed, (2) an institutional course offered on a clock-hour basis below the college level in which theoretical or classroom instruction predominates shall be considered a full-time course when a minimum of twenty-five hours per week net of instruction is required, and (3) an institutional undergraduate course offered by a college or university on a quarter or semester hour basis for which credit is granted toward a standard college degree shall be considered a full-time course when a minimum of fourteen semester hours or its equivalent is required. (b) The Administrator shall define part-time training in the case of the types of courses referred to in subsection (a), and shall define full-time and part-time training in the cases of all other types of courses pursued under this Act. OVERCHARGES BY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

SEC. 311. (a) I f the Administrator finds that an educational institution has charged or received from any eligible person any amount in excess of the charges for tuition and fees which such institution requires similarly circumstanced students, not receiving educational assistance under this Act, who are enrolled in the same course to pay, he may disapprove such educational institution for the enrollment of any eligible person not already enrolled therein under this Act and any eligible veteran not already enrolled therein under the Veterans' Re- flusc'Qoi^ote. adjustment Assistance Act of 1952. (b) Any educational institution which has been disapproved under section 234 of the Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952 38 USC 944. shall be deemed to be disapproved for the enrollment under this Act of any eligible person not already enrolled therein.

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