Two months after an IT hiccup at the Department of Veterans Affairs left a significant portion of GI Bill recipients without their anticipated payments for school and housing, some advocates have a ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. One of the ...

The GI Bill was created in response to an outcry of the treatment of World War I veterans, who often returned to the U.S. with little more than enough money to get home. Originally called the "The ...

Johnnie, a veteran, has $12,000 in student loan debt he is struggling to repay. He wrote to us recently, wondering if there is a way to tap his GI Bill benefits to help pay off that debt: I enlisted ...

Since the signing of the original GI Bill, the program has gone through major changes. None as big as the changes created by the bill’s newest manifestation, the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Benefit payments ...

Delayed implementation of a provision of the Forever GI Bill is one reason some students haven't received any housing stipends from the VA yet this semester. (Getty Images) The average student veteran ...

President Bush on Monday signed a bill that will pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the remainder of his presidency and into spring 2009. The supplemental spending bill provides nearly ...

To date, more than $400 billion in education benefits have been provided to about 25 million beneficiaries through the GI Bill, but can it be made better? [File photo: Shutterstock] When President ...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 4, 2014) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs launched today an online GI Bill Comparison Tool to make it easier for veterans, service members and dependents to calculate their ...

Early in his first term, President Barack Obama signed the Post-9/11 GI Bill. The new law provided much-needed reforms to the traditional GI Bill, such as simplified tuition rates, the ability to ...

Most military enlistees sign up during boot camp to pay $1,200 to later use the so-called Montgomery GI Bill for their education— but few ever will. They don’t need it because they likely will opt for ...

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