GI Bill & Other Education Benefits

Stars and Stripes: Online complaints system will police colleges over GI Bill benefits

WASHINGTON — Federal officials on Thursday launched an online complaints system designed to root out colleges taking advantage of student veterans and their military education benefits. Complaints will be reviewed by the departments of Veterans [...]

Federal Agencies Partner to Protect Veterans, Service Members and their Families Using GI Bill Education Benefits

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Education and Justice, along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission announced today the launch of a new online complaint system designed [...]

10 U.S.C. 2006a, 2014 National Defense Authorization Act s. 541

Testimony of Holly Petraeus before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs

Testimony of Hollister K. Petraeus Assistant Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Office of Servicemember Affairs Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs July 31, 2013 Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member Burr, and distinguished Members of [...]

Former DeVry military recruiter/whistleblower testimony

Chris Neiweem, a former DeVry military recruiter, testified before the US Senate Committee on Defense Appropriations for its hearing on the Defense Department's Voluntary Education programs. The full hearing link is here (https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/hearing-on-voluntary-military-education-programs) Chris Neiweem's [...]

VA Registers “GI Bill” as a Trademark

WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that GI Bill is now a registered trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and VA is the sole owner of the mark.

States’ Attorneys General Action A Victory for Veterans and the GI Bill

WASHINGTON – Officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs applauded a decision by the attorneys general of several states to give VA the rights to use the GIBill.Com website, after the website’s original owners QuinStreet [...]

Veterans Affairs: After Court Settlement, VA Takes Over GIBill.com and Other Sites

In a legal win for Veterans, VA is taking control of the formerly privately-owned website GIBill.com. This means Veterans will be better protected against deceptive marketing practices launched by businesses eager to cash in on [...]

USA Today Editorial: Veterans Are Not Dollar Signs in Uniforms

The 1944 GI bill helped catapult a generation of veterans into the middle class and beyond, financing the education of three future Supreme Court justices, three presidents and thousands of doctors and scientists while democratizing many [...]

U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions: PowerPoint Slides on GI Bill & For-Profit Colleges (2012)

What Are Taxpayers and Veterans Getting For Their Money? Taxpayers Spend More than Twice as Much to Train Veterans at ForProfit Colleges

U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions: Charts on Defense Department & For-Profit Colleges (2012)

For‐Profit Colleges Collect Half of All Department of Defense Tuition Assistance Benefits

U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions: Department of Defense Data Reveals For-Profit Colleges Are Taking in the Bulk of Military Education Benefits (2012)

New information provided by the Department of Defense (DOD) and analyzed by the majority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) shows that for-profit colleges are receiving one of [...]