The Department of Veterans Affairs may expend from any funds available for that purpose whatever sums are necessary for the subsistence, maintenance, or other necessary expenses of beneficiaries under R.S. 29:288 during the period of their college or university training. The expenditures shall not exceed one thousand dollars per year for each beneficiary nor shall they be available to him for any period of more than four years to be completed in not more than five years.
La. R.S. § 29:289