Veterans Eligible to Transfer School Credit Act (HR 6604): School Closure Benefits Restoration

The devastating trend of school closures continues to negatively affect student veterans, leaving them with questions about their GI Bill benefits. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) inappropriately set a requirement for veterans to have transferred to a new school before seeing what their benefits eligibility might be. We urged VA to fix this. However, when they didn’t, we went to Congress and got a unanimously-passed law (the VETS Credit Act) that ensures veterans can get their GI Bill benefits “restored” before they pick a new school. Enacted unanimously December 19, 2022.

Read the bill and its progress here.