Tag: Federal Student Aid

Q: Veterans and Military Service Organizations Urge Education Department Not to Rollback Student Protections and Quality Controls in Program Integrity Rules

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Q: Veterans and Military Organizations Write VA to Fix Delays in GI Bill Payments

As an IT issue wreaked havoc on GI Bill payments, 15 veteran and military organizations wrote a letter urging VA Secretary Wilkie to find a prompt solution. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/forever-gi-bill-delays-vso-letter.pdf"]

Q: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ Rescission of Gainful Employment Fails Statutory Obligation to Stop Waste, Fraud, and Abuse and to Protect Taxpayer Dollars – and Knowingly Puts Veterans and Servicemembers at Risk

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Q: Our Public Comment Opposing the Rescission of Gainful Employment

Public Comment by VES against the Education Department’s proposal to completely rescind the requirement that career college programs meet minimum Gainful Employment metrics [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gainful-employment-comment-sept-2018.pdf"]

Q: Our Full-Page Ad for the Military Lending Act

Veterans and Military Service Organizations Take Out Full-Page Ad in Many Newspapers Nationwide to Protect the Military Lending Act [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/national-mla-ad.pdf"]

Q: Veterans Organizations Oppose DeVos' Proposed Borrower Defense Rule

Twenty-Seven Veteran and Military Service Organization Submit Comment Opposing DeVos’s Proposed Borrower Defense Rule, which Protects Predatory Schools Rather than Military-Connected Students [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/aug-borrower-defense.pdf"]

Q: Proposed Borrower Defense Rule: Worse than 2016 for Military-Connected Students

This chart makes clear the differences between the 2016 rule and the proposed 2018 rule at the US Education Department. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/borrower-defense-rule-comparison.pdf"]

Q: 27 veteran and military service organizations oppose the Education Department's rollback of protections for taxpayers and students in Borrower Defense rule

A letter by veteran organizations in opposition of the Education Department's rollback of veteran protections. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/bd-mso-vso-public-comments.pdf"] Individual veterans also filed their own public comments about their experiences. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/individual-veterans-bd-comments.pdf"]

Q: The Washington Examiner: Don't Lower Standards for Federally Subsidized For-Profit Colleges

Conservatives complained a lot about Barack Obama when he was president. But not everything he did was bad. One of the things Obama did that actually made a lot of sense was try to stop throwing federal student loan and grant dollars at for-profit colleges that take in lots of taxpayer money and fail to give their graduates useful skills for finding jobs afterward.

Q: For-Profit Schools' Post-9/11 GI Bill Revenue and Enrollment Declined from 2014 to 2016

In this brief, we report separately on total GI Bill enrollment and enrollment for only the Post-9/11 benefit. Post-9/11 revenue includes tuition payments for qualifying GI Bill students through the Yellow Ribbon program under which VA matches a school’s contribution to cover any gap between charges and the annual tuition cap at private-sector schools. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/VES-Issue-Brief-3-Sector.FINAL_.v2.pdf" title="VES Issue Brief #3 Sector.FINAL.v2"]