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Va. Beach lawmaker to hold MyCAA discussion

Rep. Glenn Nye, D-Va., will hold a roundtable meeting at 4 p.m. Sunday at his Virginia Beach office to hear from local military spouses affected by the Defense Department’s sudden halt of a tuition assistance program that paid up to $6,000 for education, training, licenses, certificates and degrees leading to portable careers.

The military spouse My Career Advancement Account program was halted suddenly Feb. 16, and many spouses have said they found out about it at the worst time — when they were trying to apply for funding to be sent to their schools for courses that had already been approved by the Defense Department.

“I want to hear from military spouses who were counting on this program, so I can take their stories back to Washington and fight to get MyCAA restored as quickly as possible,” Nye said in a statement announcing the meeting.

Any spouse affected by the suspension of these accounts is welcome to attend, said Nye’s spokesman Clark Pettig.

The office is located at 4772 Euclid Road, Suite E, Virginia Beach.