A Gold Star spouse assumes her family qualifies for the Fry Scholarship. She actually qualifies for a different, older VA program, and the two generally cannot cover the same period.
Most veterans only find out about this benefit after they’ve already picked a school. A VA counselor can test interests and aptitudes and help choose a training path before a single tuition dollar is spent.
A veteran who pays for a CDL or contractor’s licensing exam can get the fee reimbursed by VA without touching a single semester of school enrollment.
A welding apprentice’s GI Bill housing check starts at the full rate and shrinks every 6 months as his paycheck grows. Here is the exact schedule, and why there is no tuition benefit to go with it.
A veteran who paid $1,200 into the Montgomery GI Bill during service assumes it’s his best option, but depending on his school’s tuition, the Post-9/11 GI Bill’s direct-to-school payment can leave him thousands ahead instead.
A Post-9/11 GI Bill student signs a Work-Study contract at his financial aid office and earns hourly wages on top of his housing payment, with no reduction to either benefit.
A Marine veteran rated 90 percent for a traumatic brain injury cannot return to any job right now, but he still qualifies for VA support to relearn daily tasks and regain independence at home.
When a Marine gunnery sergeant died of wounds from Helmand Province, his daughter didn’t learn until years later that she had until age 33 to claim 36 months of Fry Scholarship benefits.
Six months of GI Bill left and a STEM degree still unfinished is exactly the gap the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship was built to close, if your program qualifies.
A veteran taking classes fully online assumed his GI Bill housing payment would match his campus friend’s. It was less than half.