Category Archives: General

DEA recipients can now sign up to have their benefits delivered via direct deposit. Click on the title of this feed for more information.

Schools may now report mutliple students being placed on academic probation in one electronic incident submission. Click on the title of this feed for more information.

There was a delay in processing verifications submitted through WAVE and the automated phone system over the New Year holiday. If you verified your attendance on Dec 31 or Jan 1, your payment will be delayed approximately one week. This was a system error and we apologize for the inconvenience.

As you may know, the Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) payments you receive for the Post-9/11 GI Bill are based on the military’s Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) rates for an E-5 with dependents. Department of Defense adjusts the military BAH rate every calendar year (or January 1) based on changes to housing costs across the country. Rates can either go up or down.Public Law 111 – 377 (the Veterans Educational Assistance Improvement Act of 2010) amended the effective date for the adjustment of the MHA you receive under the Post-9/11 GI Bill from the beginning of the calendar year (January 1) to the beginning of the academic year (August 1). Therefore , if the BAH increased for your area, you will not see an increase until your September 2012 payment for training pursued in August. If the BAH decreases for your area, your MHA amount will not decrease unless you change schools or have more than a six-month break in training.

You can now get detailed information including your Post-9/11 GI Bill eligibility date, delimiting (ending) date, amount of entitlement used, remaining entitlement, as well as your enrollment history in eBenefits.

Congress passed, and the President has signed into law, the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011. A new benefit for unemployed veterans.

The Questions and Answers section of our website will be unavailable from Friday September 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM EDT until Saturday September 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM EDT for a software upgrade.

New law modifying the rules for tuition and fee payments to certain private schools.

A new standardized School Certifying Official Handbook is now available online. Click the link in the title of this RSS feed to see.

The Yellow Ribbon Program enrollment season has ended . You can find a list of participating programs on our website by clicking on the title of the RSS feed. The participating Yellow Ribbon programs in this list are the ones we’ve processed. We will continue to process and update this list. We expect all approved agreements to be posted by June 3, 2011.