---
type: "LegalText"
title: "22 U.S.C. § 4088"
description: "Education allowance"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
chapter_number: "52"
chapter_name: "FOREIGN SERVICE"
section: "4088"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4088"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc22@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t22/s4088"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-22/usc22.xml"
source_hash: "183bd1ba7cf70d7f258c14d2a3fa8bf3d9a2eccf71112203f71f78af28c70013"
raw_snapshot_hash: "b9c63ede722f5e0bf8eabfe9029e06e312ab9bcfd95c4d1424ed515baff1df83"
text_hash: "2f1a2503999831469cad2f8b7bf1a8b68f5733f98b02822c7716e10c2fb8e1e1"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---

# 22 U.S.C. § 4088 - Education allowance

## Text

A Department or United States Agency for International Development employee who is on leave to perform service in the uniformed services (as defined in section 4303(13) of title 38) may receive an education allowance if the employee would, if not for such service, be eligible to receive the education allowance.

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 908, as added Pub. L. 118–31, div. F, title LXII, § 6221(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 978; amended Pub. L. 118–159, div. G, title LXXVI, § 7603, Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2553.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Amendments2024—Pub. L. 118–159 inserted “or United States Agency for International Development” after “A Department”.