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PUBLIC LAW 92-540-OCT. 24, 1972

[86 STAT.

" (b)(1) The monthly training assistance allowance of an eligible veteran piirsuing a program described under subsection (a) shall be as follows:

"Column I

Periods of training

Column II

Column III

Column IV

Column V

No dependents

One dependent

Two dependents

More than two dependents The amount in column IV, plus the following for each dependent in excess of two:

First 6 months Second 6 months Third 6 months Fourth and any succeeding 6-month periods

Definitions.

80 Stat. 12; 72 Stat. 1193. 38 USC 1651, 1700. 80 Stat. 23; 82 Stat. 1331.

$160 120 80

$179 139 99

$196 156 116

$8. 8. 8.

40

59

76

8.

"(2) The monthly training assistance allowance of an eligible person pursuing a program described under subsection (a) shall be (A) $160 during the first six-month period, (B) $120 during the second six-month period, (C) $80 during the third six-month period, and (D) $40 during the fourth and any succeeding six-month period. "(3) I n any month in which an eligible veteran or person pursuing a program of apprenticeship or a program of other on-job training fails to complete one hundred and twenty hours of training in such month, the monthly training assistance allowance set forth in subsection (b)(1) or (2) of this section, as applicable, shall be reduced proportionately in the proportion that the number of hours worked bears to one hundred and twenty hours rounded off to the nearest eight hours. "(c) For the purpose of this chapter, the terms 'program of apprenticeship' and 'program of other on-job training' shall have the same meaning as 'program of education'; and the term 'training assistance allowance' shall have the same meaning as 'educational assistance allowance' as set forth in chapters 34 and 35 of this title."; (2) redesignating sections 1788, 1789, 1790, and 1791 as sections 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, respectively, and inserting after section 1787 the following new sections: " (a) For the purposes of this chapter and chapters 34 and 35 of this title— " (1) an institutional trade or technical course offered on a clockhour 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 pre-
 * § 1788. Measurement of courses

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