# Dependents Education: Increase in Educational Assistance Rates
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 1998-12-09 · Effective 1998-10-01 · 63 FR 67778
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-32646
- **Category:** va-education
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 67778
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 21
- **Publication date:** 1998-12-09
- **Effective date:** 1998-10-01
## Abstract

A provision of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 provides for an increase of approximately 20% in educational assistance rates payable under Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) effective October 1, 1998. The regulations governing those rates are changed to show the rates indicated in the Act.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/12/09/98-32646/dependents-education-increase-in-educational-assistance-rates)
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