GI Bill & Other Education Benefits

Our Statement for the Record: House Hearing on Career Ready Student Veterans Act

Veterans Education Success (VES) appreciates the opportunity to share its perspective on the Career-Ready Student Veterans Act (H.R. 2360). VES is a non-profit organization focused on protecting the integrity and promise of the GI Bill [...]

Career-Ready Student Veterans Act (HOUSE)

Career-Ready Student Veterans Act (SENATE) – passed unanimously Dec. 10, 2016, as part of Public Law 114-315

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill Feedback System (VA’s report on student complaints in FY 2014)

U.S. Government Accountability Office: DOD Education Benefits: Action is Needed to Ensure Evaluations of Post-Secondary Schools are Useful

VA Releases New Version of the GI Bill® Comparison Tool

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today launched an improved version of the GI Bill®Comparison Tool, which was first launched in February 2014.  The GI Bill Comparison Tool is designed to make [...]

U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions: Is the New GI Bill Working? For-Profit Colleges Increasing Veteran Enrollment and Federal Funds (2014)

Almost three years ago the HELP Committee determined that eight of the top 10 recipients of veterans’ educational benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits were large, publicly traded companies that operate for-profit colleges. A [...]

PBS NewsHour: Is the GI Bill benefiting for-profit colleges instead of helping veterans?

Veterans can receive the full cost of a college education under the GI Bill, but recently funds from the bill have flowed mostly to for-profit schools, even though veterans’ prospects are often not appreciably better [...]

Andrew Barr, Journal of Human Resources: From the Battlefield to the Schoolyard: The Short-Term Impact of the Post-9/11 GI Bill

U.S. News & World Report: Veterans Benefit From the ‘Power of the Pen’

CRITICS DERIDED AS “small stuff” President Obama’s announcement in his State of the Union address that he would focus less time on Congress (given its current ineffectiveness) and more time on his executive power, wielding the [...]

Inside Higher Ed: Following Student Veterans

Veterans and their families have a new website to use as they shop around for colleges and try to make sense of their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released the [...]

New Online GI Bill Comparison Tool Available

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs launched today an online GI Bill® Comparison Tool to make it easier for Veterans, Servicemembers and dependents to calculate their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits and learn more about [...]