More on the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill
The Post-9/11 G.I. Bill is confusing. The Montgomery G.I. Bill works the same for each recipient: $1,321 per month, per veteran, regardless of where he or she goes to school or what he or she is studying. This system is imperfect in many ways, but one of its strengths is its simplicity. It’s very easy for a veterans to calculate their benefits and select an institution based on that.
The Post-9/11 G.I. Bill attempts to fix some of the flaws in the Montgomery plan (a public undergraduate degree in New York state will probably cost more than the same from South Dakota), but of course, this makes it more complicated as well. This Inside HigherEd article gowes through some of the details, and what the military is doing to counsel students-to-be. The Department of Veterans Affairs has a website to explain the benefits as well.
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