Senators to DoD: Where’s the tuition assistance?
The two senators who led the charge to save tuition assistance from budget cuts want to know what’s taking the Defense Department so long to restart the benefits pipeline.
- Apr. 4, 2013
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Student veterans who were overpaid on their GI Bill benefits would get more time to repay the money under a bill introduced Monday by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.
After months or years of taking orders from guys with more stripes on their uniforms, how would you like to be your own boss on the civilian side?
The two senators who led the charge to save tuition assistance from budget cuts want to know what’s taking the Defense Department so long to restart the benefits pipeline.
Defense officials have reduced the number of required furlough days for civilian employees, but military school officials are now faced with the possibility of having to squeeze the furloughs into an even shorter time frame.
Tuition aid will return, but questions remainTuition assistance has been rescued by Congress after thousands of troops complained when most of the services suspended the popular education benefit as a cost-cutting move.
GI Bill in uniform: Use it and lose itTuition assistance may have been revived — at least for this fiscal year — but if the program comes into the budget-cutting crosshairs again, you may want to think twice before using your GI Bill benefits as a replacement, at least while you’re still on active duty.
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Editorial: Stretch TA fundingCongress acted quickly last week to restore tuition assistance funding after the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force abruptly suspended the program.
One student was a homeless man with welding experience who slept in a tent throughout training. Two were brothers from Indiana who drove to Pennsylvania and stayed in a motel room for four weeks. Another was a veteran just home from being stationed in Korea.
When the services suddenly announced they were pulling way back on tuition assistance for all troops, tens of thousands were left wondering how they would fulfill their educational ambitions — or even whether they could complete the current semester.
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