“My concern is that we thought we had done it all correctly and were never notified of the error. We ended up spending a month scuba diving without health insurance." -- retiree's wife.
If it does, that’ll mean the end to any late fees or other punishments school sometimes impose on veterans whose GI Bill payments don’t come in on time — as long as those schools want to keep enrolling students using the education benefit.
The leader of Indiana’s veterans affairs agency resigned Friday following reports that he had awarded money to veterans who worked under him at the agency that was intended to go to veterans struggling to make ends meet.
Senate stalls a bill to help student vets, hurricane victims will get pending VA appeals claims put on the fast track, and too few employers are focusing vet recruitment efforts toward college campuses.
Many student veterans have been waiting longer than normal for their GI Bill benefits this semester, as the VA works through a backlog of claims affecting thousands of students. Meanwhile, legislation that could have helped these students is stalled in the Senate, and veteran education advocates along with members of Congress are calling for action.