The GI Bill
Sep. 16th, 2010 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The IAVA is trying to get some parts of it fixed. I am hoping, personally, that the stupidity of pro-rating it stops.
Because that's one of the petty ways someone figured out to short change the vets. Why do I say that? Because the GI Bill is time limited. If I am enrolled in classes in June, and have that month certified with the GI bill, I have used a month of my eligibility.
So far, so good, but... if June is a short month... I don't get the full value of that month. If finals end on the 14th, I'll get a bit less than half of the 1,100 I am entitled to for a month of classes.
But, I don't get to keep half a month's eligibility at the other end. Nope, that months is gone.
Last year, I did nine months of classes. I used 7 months of eligibility (there were some paperwork issues, which cost me a couple of months. I got 4 1/2 months worth of payments. It's not as if I wasn't in school. It's not as if, somehow, I was going to have an extra $500 show up in the months which had gaps in classes. The quarter ends when it ends, and the scheduling of the next one isn't set by the soldier. So why are we screwed?
Full-time class load (thirteen quarter credits, ea. quarter) and a job. So where was I supposed to find the extra money; if I'd been in need of it to make the rent? Honestly, if I'd been as dependent on the GI bill as I thought I was going to be... it would have been touch and go in March and April. My disability has picked up that slack.
So, it really needs some tweaks. I've already complained to my reps about it, but any other voice in the choir would be all to the good.
In the meanwhile, the the IAVA has a petition: supporting changes to the GI Bill
They want 10,000 signatures. I was 673.
The IAVA is trying to get some parts of it fixed. I am hoping, personally, that the stupidity of pro-rating it stops.
Because that's one of the petty ways someone figured out to short change the vets. Why do I say that? Because the GI Bill is time limited. If I am enrolled in classes in June, and have that month certified with the GI bill, I have used a month of my eligibility.
So far, so good, but... if June is a short month... I don't get the full value of that month. If finals end on the 14th, I'll get a bit less than half of the 1,100 I am entitled to for a month of classes.
But, I don't get to keep half a month's eligibility at the other end. Nope, that months is gone.
Last year, I did nine months of classes. I used 7 months of eligibility (there were some paperwork issues, which cost me a couple of months. I got 4 1/2 months worth of payments. It's not as if I wasn't in school. It's not as if, somehow, I was going to have an extra $500 show up in the months which had gaps in classes. The quarter ends when it ends, and the scheduling of the next one isn't set by the soldier. So why are we screwed?
Full-time class load (thirteen quarter credits, ea. quarter) and a job. So where was I supposed to find the extra money; if I'd been in need of it to make the rent? Honestly, if I'd been as dependent on the GI bill as I thought I was going to be... it would have been touch and go in March and April. My disability has picked up that slack.
So, it really needs some tweaks. I've already complained to my reps about it, but any other voice in the choir would be all to the good.
In the meanwhile, the the IAVA has a petition: supporting changes to the GI Bill
They want 10,000 signatures. I was 673.
