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Task & Purpose: The FBI Just Raided a ‘Cult’ Church That Allegedly Targets US Service Members
A 2020 letter from Veterans Education Success to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Georgia Department of Veterans Services detailed repeated instances of defrauding soldiers and veterans. This included misleading students enrolled in education classes at the church about the use of their education benefits, charging higher tuition rates for veterans, misleading the VA about whether the church was a legitimate teaching organization, and forcing members to recruit new members, especially among younger service members and spouses. Many of the former church members cited in the letter also say that they were recruited by other service members while on base. One [...]
USA Today: FBI raids Georgia churches near military bases, sources say church was targeting soldiers
In August 2020, Veterans Education Success, an advocacy organization based in Washington D.C., asked the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Georgia Veterans Service to investigate alleged abuses of the GI Bill program by House of Prayer Christian Church’s bible seminaries. Veterans alleged the House of Prayer Christian Church "deceives the VA during inspections and targets veterans in order to access GI Bill funding, VA disability compensation, and VA home loans," according to the organization's letter to the VA and Georgia SAA. In the Veterans Education Success's letter to the VA and Georgia SAA in 2020, the organization cited [...]
The Potential of the G.I. Bill and the Need to Combat Fraud in the Program
By Will Hubbard The following op-ed was published in The Ripon Society. It’s time to fulfill America’s promise to our veterans They finally found John Gibson, a Georgia Congressman, after a frantic statewide search. The year was 1944, and Rep. Gibson was to be the tie-breaking vote to pass the “G.I. Bill of Rights,” as they were calling it in Congress. At the time, he had been back home for several weeks to recover from an illness. Despite his poor health, it became a mad dash amidst a terrible thunderstorm to find and return the Congressman to the Capitol to cast [...]
WTVD-TV (Fayetteville, NC): FBI raids Fayetteville church accused of operating as a cult, targeting military members
Veterans Education Success is an advocacy group that has reportedly worked closely with former church members. "In some cases they actually target service members, coaching them on how to get out of the military with false medical claims--so that they can not only take advantage of their GI Bill, but also take advantage of their medical and disability compensation. It's pretty shocking stuff," Will Hubbard said. Hubbard is the Vice President for Veterans & Military Policy at Veterans Education Success. The nonprofit group asked the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to investigate the allegations. "Everything that we've seen indicates they [...]
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ABOUT VETERANS EDUCATION SUCCESS We are bipartisan policy experts, academic researchers, lawyers and advocates. We are veterans and non-veterans dedicated to bridging the military-civilian divide to ensure career and education success for military families. We provide: Free Help for Veterans and Military-Connected Students: Free legal services, advice, and college and career counseling for the GI Bill. Research & Reports: Non-partisan research on issues of concern to student veterans, including student outcomes and federal oversight. Bipartisan Policy Advocacy: Non-partisan assistance policymakers to improve higher education quality and veterans' success and to protect the integrity [...]