Veterans Benefits GI Bill

The Post 9/11 GI Bill offers lucrative financial aid benefits to active duty, reserve, and veterans. These benefits are meant to scale with the rising costs of tuition and offer more than the predecessor, the Montgomery GI Bill.
This does not mean, however, that your financial aid should stop at your Post 9-11 GI Bill!
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Family transferability rulings for the Post 9/11 GI Bill is quite possibly the most confusing legislation the new GI Bill has to offer. While the Department of Defense made announcements on their intended rulings for family transferability in May, nothing had been set in stone, despite this being one of the most anticipated qualities the [...]

Rosa DeLauro presented new legislature yesterday to amend the Post 9/11 GI Bill so that it offers job training programs and apprenticeships as part of its benefits, similar to the Montgomery GI Bill.
Previously, MGIB was considered a superior alternative for military personnel seeking job training instead of a college degree. There are active duty, reserve, [...]

The Post 9/11 GI Bill is by no stretch of the word complete. Take a look at un-finalized issues like family transferability and the Veterans Educational Equality Act of California. Readers of the Veterans Benefits GI Bill blog arrive daily asking, “Are these rulings absolute? Do they apply to me? Who can I contact to [...]

The Veterans Benefits GI Bill recently received a comment on our Post 9/11 GI Bill post regarding Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) and thought it due time to address some of the questions concerning the BAH program the Post 9/11 GI Bill provides.
The Department of Defense’s Military Compensation site has a section addressing the Basic [...]

About.com: Young Adults is a guide that focuses on parents with young adults going back to college. The blog focuses on everything from college reviews to how to make a cozy dorm room.
Recently the author, Jackie Burrell, focused on the Post 9/11 GI Bill’s benefits for the young adult, college-bound populace. This June 10th post [...]

The Post 9/11 GI Bill changes so rapidly, it’s hard to put a solid finger on it. Schools and students alike search endlessly for information on the new GI Bill, whether it be changes in policies or completely added amendments.
Early June already brought statistics for the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Since the release of the [...]

The active duty, reserve, and veterans of the United States military rejoice over the benefits of the Post 9/11 GI Bill, offering tuition that matches the economy the same way the Montgomery GI Bill covered tuition in 1944.
With the way the Post 9/11 GI Bill is designed, however, the benefits vary state-to-state, so some states [...]

In a previous post, we discussed how California currently offers zero tuition to military personnel and family attending school with the Post 9/11 GI Bill. This is because in 1960, California ruled there would be no tuition costs for their universities, instead handling educational expenses in the form of flat fees.
The 1960 ruling of education [...]