# Veterans Education: Implementation of the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act and the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program
> **US Department of Defense** · Final rule. · Published 1996-01-22 · Effective 1996-01-22 · 61 FR 1525
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-664
- **Category:** personnel
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Defense
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 1525
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 21
- **Publication date:** 1996-01-22
- **Effective date:** 1996-01-22
## Abstract

This document amends regulations of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) concerning the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program (VEAP). It restates statutory requirements and sets forth VA statutory interpretations regarding provisions of the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1994. More specifically, the regulations are amended by making flight training a permanent part of VEAP; by providing for approval of courses leading to alternative teacher certification; by defining ``alternative teacher certification''; by reflecting that VA is prohibited from functionally supervising State approving agencies that approve courses for VA training; and by providing that, in order to be approved for VA training, a correspondence course must be accredited and at least 50% of the students completing the course must take at least six months to complete it.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/01/22/96-664/veterans-education-implementation-of-the-veterans-benefits-improvement-act-and-the-post-vietnam-era)
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