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Veterans Benefits GI Bill Blog Seeking Personal Stories on Transferability

14 Jul, 2009 GI Bill
Veterans Benefits GI Bill Blog Seeking Personal Stories on Transferability

Several readers have expressed concern about their application for family transferability for the Post 9/11 GI Bill. The U.S. Department of Defense has received an overwhelming amount of applications pertaining to the transferability option of the Post 9/11 GI Bill.

Do you have a personal story you would like to share about your experiences with family transferability and the Post 9/11 GI Bill? Please leave a comment about when you applied and how long the process took!

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  • Alfred A. Silva

    Hello fellow vets:
    I am Navy Retired as of 2005, with 20 years combined active and reserve service. After 9/11 my unit a Helicopter Combat Search & Rescue Unit was activated for 12 months and sent to Iraq.
    I had been trying to get information on how to tranfer the Post 9/11 educational benefits to my 20yr old daughter who wants to tranfer to the university. After many calls and run around. The navy office said that this is the message they came up with.
    This message was just put out on the Navy website http://www.npc.navy.mil. Regarding transferability, the message reads as follows:
    The transferability option must be elected while the member is serving in the armed forces. Active memebers who Separate,Retire,Transfer to the fleet reserve or who are discharged prior to 1 August 2009, are not eligible to elect transferability. SELRES(Selective Reserves) members who transfer to the Retired Reserves (with or without pay),tranfer to the Individual Ready Reserve or who are discharged prior to 1 Aug 2009, are “Not Eligible” to elect transferability: end of mssge.

    I have been a single dad since i got custody of my daughter when she was 5years old. When i was sent to Iraq my daughter was 15yrs old. I had to have my brother and his family watch my daughter while i was in Iraq. I had to pull her out of one school and enroll her in another while she was with my brother.
    The point i am trying to make is that why is the DOD picking and choosing as to what kids can recieve the educational benefits. My daughter sacraficed just the same as all other kids whos parents went to Iraq.
    I am interested in starting a petition on this matter, if there is not already a petition currently out.
    Would like to hear back from vets who feel the same way on this issue.
    Thanks,
    Alfred

  • Kfax

    It appears that very few Army dependents will receive their Certificate of Eligibility in time to pay their first semester tuition.

    The TEB website is not allowing “certifying officials” to pull up the records of their assigned personnel. That site is not working correctly and the estimated fix date is 31 July. If on 31 July the names start showing up properly and certifying officials can go in and approve their personnel, the VA is going to be swamped. Additionally, the form that has to be received by the VA in order to create the Certificate of Eligibility is currently NOT on the VA VONAPP website, therefore, it has to be mailed in! The process of mailing the form to the VA, having the VA create a certificate and then mailing that certificate back to each student is going to take awhile.

    My suggestion: get ready to pay your dependent’s first college term!

    By the way….that “certifying official” for enlisted folks is your Career Counselor/Retention NCO…

  • Melissa Ruddle

    We applied for transferability on June 29. The site said “submitted” for about 10 days and then switched to “pending review”. Nothing has changed since then – much longer than a week. What do we do if the “certifying official” doesn’t know anything about this? We can’t fill out the form for the VA until we get approved. After that I am not sure what to do. Instructions are not clear.

  • Bob

    Submitted my TEB for my wife on 14 July went on the website on the 28th and it said approved. Did the 22-1900E (think thats what its called)on line and got a email from VA that the form had been received. Just waiting on the certificate. Was told by the local VA department working on the campus that it generally takes 4-8 weeks for the certificate to come in the mail. So if that’s the case will be cutting it close. Most schools go about 4/6 weeks after classes start without making you pay a penalty. Look into what your spouses school is doing.

    Hope this helped.

    • Kourtnie McKenzie

      Bob–Thanks so much!!

  • Extenze

    I usually don’t post in Blogs but your blog forced me to, amazing work.. beautiful …

  • Melissa Ruddle

    Help! My husband’s application to TEB has been out there Pending Review since June 29. After many phone calls, he was told that he has to first fill out the 1099 to get the benefits for himself first…. THEN he can do the TEB. He thought that completing the TEB and then the 1099e would be all he needed to do. Has everyone else filled out the 1099 and been approved by the VA before filling out the TEB? This whole process has been so confusing.

  • Janice

    I was told we had to do the TEB first then the tranfer we get on the site but we do not see anyone of our children names on there it’s crazy!!!! I have called Deers over 30 times trying to fixed this issues. Help

  • http://www.sgtbilly.smugmug.com Bill Sutherland

    As a three time war vet, I was looking forward after retiring next month to transfer my GI Bill to my son. The bill was passed in April and it was recognized in Sept 2009; but, the ruling has some very specific rules.
    One of those “catch 22″ redundant rules are; children have to be under the age of 26 for use (according to the Veterans Administration) but the Defense Department in its typical way of screwing the soldier, listed that the dependent must be listed in DEERS. Every idiot knows, children fall off the roles at age 23. So, my son who is now 23 cannot qualify for the transfer of my GI Bill to support his college wishes? Now what “Fricking idiot,” – made up this rule… ? Maybe they should be sent to Iraq and Afghanistan and let them fight the next war…
    Sign me crazy and getting screwed!

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