Tweet Is the college degree becoming the new high school diploma – the new minimum requirement for getting even the lowest-level job? In this buyer’s job market for employers, the trend seems to be heading that way, at least in some industries. “When you get 800 resumes for every job ad, you need to weed [...]
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Tweet A recent issue that has been getting a lot of attention is veterans’ state residency status for GI Bill tuition purposes. Servicemembers just getting out of the military are having to pay out-state tuition rates because they have not lived in their chosen state long enough to claim residency, which is most cases requires [...]
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Tweet Since August, there have been three significant changes to the Post 9/11 GI Bill. While none of them have been across-the-board changes, each one does affect a number of GI Bill students. U.S. Territories Housing Allowance On August 28, 2012, the VA announced a change in how the Post 9/11 GI Bill Monthly Housing [...]
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Tweet With all the articles in the news lately about for-profit schools, with their deceitful practices ripping off veterans and military member students using their GI Bills, it is refreshing to hear that the Servicemember Opportunity Colleges (SOC) Consortium has drafted and accepted a Military Student Bill of Rights. The SOC Consortium is a network [...]
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Tweet Under current VA regulations, the Post 9/11 GI Bill housing allowance is generally tied to the zip code of the school’s location. However, in many cases, a school may have several satellite locations, but each of those locations do not have a separately registered facility code with the VA, so instead, the housing allowance [...]
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