the GI Bill already offers up to around $40,000 to help with college expenses. If you've been using TA while in the military, that could easily more than pay for many servicemembers' degrees. Now there's a new proposal, written about in an article on Military.com
DoD Sweats Webb GI Bill
about a proposal to boost GI Bill benefits to those comparable to when troops were coming home from WWII. This would be fantastic if it passes. Some officials seem worried it would mean a mass exodus of military members, but the current figures don't support these speculations. The number of people who actually use the college benefits now(TA, GI BIll, etc.) are absurdly low.
For a lot of us, we'll be lucky to get Voc Rehab through the VA, but the current GI Bill will allow a lot of people to get ahead on college courses while we wait for the VA to finish our claims. There's another post floating around here about that, I'll have to go find it and link it.
Doing undergraduate work at community colleges may be the best way to go while using the GI Bill. Cheap classes, forgiving class schedules, and a wider variety of day or night classes would make it ideal.
The Navy College office said there was recently a change about TA use as well. Prior, you couldn't use TA within 365 days of your EAOS. I'll have to dig around and see what they've changed it to, or if the office here caught the rumor bug.
DoD Sweats Webb GI Bill
about a proposal to boost GI Bill benefits to those comparable to when troops were coming home from WWII. This would be fantastic if it passes. Some officials seem worried it would mean a mass exodus of military members, but the current figures don't support these speculations. The number of people who actually use the college benefits now(TA, GI BIll, etc.) are absurdly low.
For a lot of us, we'll be lucky to get Voc Rehab through the VA, but the current GI Bill will allow a lot of people to get ahead on college courses while we wait for the VA to finish our claims. There's another post floating around here about that, I'll have to go find it and link it.
Doing undergraduate work at community colleges may be the best way to go while using the GI Bill. Cheap classes, forgiving class schedules, and a wider variety of day or night classes would make it ideal.
The Navy College office said there was recently a change about TA use as well. Prior, you couldn't use TA within 365 days of your EAOS. I'll have to dig around and see what they've changed it to, or if the office here caught the rumor bug.