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DVA Education Benefits Programs
Chapter 30 - Montgomery GI Bill-Active Duty
Chapter 1606 - Montgomery GI Bill- Selected Reserve
Chapter 35 - Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program
Chapter 32 - Veteran's Educational Assistance Program (VEAP)
Chapter 31 - Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling
Montgomery GI Bill - Active Duty (MGIB)
The Montgomery GI Bill - Active Duty program provides up to 36 months of education benefits. These benefits may be
used for degree and certificate programs, apprenticeship/on-the-job training and correspondence courses. Vocational flight
training is approved from September 30, 1990. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain
circumstances. Generally, benefits are payable for 10 years following your release from active duty. See the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs WEB site on Chapter 30 benefits for details.
Montgomery GI Bill - Selected Reserve (MGIB - SR)
The Montgomery GI Bill - Selected Reserve program may be available to you if you are a member of the Selected Reserve.
The Selected Reserve includes the Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and Coast
Guard Reserve, and the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard.
You may use this education assistance program for degree programs, certificate or correspondence courses, cooperative
training, independent study programs, apprenticeship/on-the-job training, and vocational flight training programs.
Remedial, refresher and deficiency training are available under certain circumstances.
Eligibility for this program is determined by the Selected Reserve components. VA makes the payments for this program.
You may be entitled to receive up to 36 months of education benefits. Your benefit entitlement ends 10 years from the date
of your eligibility for the program, or on the day you leave the Selected Reserve. See the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs WEB site on Chapter 1606 benefits for details.
Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program (DEA)
Dependents' Educational Assistance provides education and training opportunities to eligible dependents of certain
veterans. The program offers up to 45 months of education benefits. These benefits may be used for degree and certificate
programs, apprenticeship, and on-the-job training. If you are a spouse, you may take a correspondence course. Remedial,
deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances. See the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs WEB site on Chapter 35 benefits for details.
Veterans Educational Assistance Program (VEAP)
VEAP is available if you elected to make contributions from your military pay to participate in this education benefit
program. Your contributions are matched on a $2 for $1 basis by the Government. You may use these benefits for degree,
certificate, correspondence, apprenticeship/on-the-job training programs, and vocational flight training programs. In certain
circumstances, remedial, deficiency, and refresher training may also be available. Benefit entitlement is 1 to 36 months
depending on the number of monthly contributions. You have 10 years from your release from active duty to use VEAP
benefits. If there is entitlement not used after the 10-year period, your portion remaining in the fund will be automatically
refunded. See the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs WEB site on Chapter 32 benefits for details.
Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling Program
The Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling Program provides a comprehensive program of vocational rehabilitation
assessment and services for veterans who have incurred or aggravated a physical or mental disability while in the armed
forces of the United States. Veterans who have the potential to become employed are assisted in making viable
occupational choices, and if necessary, are provided the skills needed to qualify for suitable employment. When the veteran
reaches the point where he or she is "job-ready", VR&C staff assists that person in the employment search process. For
those persons who do not have the option of employment by virtue of the severity of disabling conditions, VR&C may be
able to provide independent living services designed to assist the individual to live in the community as independently as
possible. Whether the rehabilitation plan calls for a vocational goal or independent living, the VR&C staff work very
closely with the veteran and his/her family to assure progress in the program and success in the goals.
The Department of Veterans Affairs administers a number of educational benefit programs for eligible servicemembers,
veterans, and dependents. As an integral part of these benefits, educational and vocational counseling is available to help
the individual to choose a vocational direction or area of study and select a school or other facility which the person might
attend to achieve the chosen goal. Counseling is provided by qualified counselors and is offered at no charge.
See the Department of Veteran Affairs WEB site on Chapter 31 benefits for details.
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