Congress approved the Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2009 in order to allocate additional benefits to the original GI Bill or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. The original bill provided college education for returning WWII veterans and a year of unemployment compensation. The newly amended bill provides additional benefits for servicemen who served in the military since September 11, 2009. These new benefits include full coverage of tuition, allowances, and other adjustment benefits.
The Council on Education recently created a website to help military veterans choose colleges and obtain education benefits designated by the Post-9/11 GI Bill. The council opened the website today and hopes to encourage many veterans to take advantage of the opportunities their website offers. Apparently, many veterans neither know how to obtain the benefits designated by the bill nor know how to use them for a college education. The website provides information concerning benefits and eligibility, college and career advice, and anecdotes about veterans who completed a college education.
Unfortunately, the website does not provide any information on an issue that I discussed in one of my older posts. The issue is concerned with the allocation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill's funds to veterans. So many veterans applied for the bill's benefits that the Department of Veterans Affairs faces a backlog that may take several months to clear. The veterans who did not receive the bill's benefits appealed to the Department of Veterans Affairs and thus created another problem for the department. Hopefully, the department can fix these issues soon and provide the necessary financial aid to the veterans.
Apart from what the website may not cover, it is still a very helpful source for veterans looking to pursue higher education. Information that was not properly conveyed to these veterans earlier is now explicitly available on the council's website.
No comments:
Post a Comment