Posted on 09/12/2023 5:59:40 AM PDT by Salman
Military veterans tapping their Post-9/11 and Montgomery GI Bills for college can legally be granted fewer college benefits than they earned, the federal government argued in a U.S. Supreme Court brief filed Monday that could affect as many as 1.7 million long-serving veterans.
The filing offers the Department of Veterans Affairs’ side of the story in Rudisill v. McDonough, a Supreme Court case having to do with how college benefits are calculated for veterans who’ve earned and used them under different plans.
It puts the VA at odds with leading veterans’ rights organizations, as well as senators and representatives in Congress including the Republican vice chair of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Biden needs those funds to give to Iran, the migrant invaders and of course "The Big Guy".
So as the Brandon Administration kisses the asses of all of the Student Loan deadbeats, they crap all over the American Veterans. FJB!
I think millions if asked would say that the GI Bill is the greatest piece of legislation ever passed by Congress in the last hundred years. I know I would.
I went to school on the old GI Bill...
I couldnt have gone otherwise...
This is not the only thing the VA have watered down for veterans...
When I joined in 1972 just about everything for a funeral for a veteran was paid for ...
When I separated 7 years later, we got a headstone and very little else...
Just an example...
The GI Bill is now an “underfunded liability”. Why? They have spent the money! Since GIs tend to live to 65, they need to reduce payouts.
“can legally be granted fewer college benefits than they earned”
Veterans get their earned rewards whacked, but Illegal Alien Invaders are granted benefits they never earned or deserved.
seems fair . . .
/s
Dumb-F^^ks!!
“Rudisill has been fighting the case since 2015 with help from volunteer attorneys Tim McHugh, David DePippo and now Tseytlin.”
Notice how the article states that the attorneys are volunteer attorneys. I wonder if this is because of an 1862 law that limits attorney fees for lawsuits by veterans against the government to only $10.00.
I joined in 1977, and it’d gone to GI-bill version 2.0 by that point. About six years later, it went to version 3.0. Before I retired in 1999...it’d changed again.
They dragged us around 1984 into a base theater and explained this in a crappy fashion. Afterwards, one of our folks was a economics major about to finish college. He gave us a 45-min detailed explanation (what we should have gotten at the presentation at the base theater).
Bottom line...the cost was climbing at a hefty rate, and the military would not be able to fulfill their obligation. As he said...take every advantage while you can because in a decade, massive cuts will be coming down the line. He was correct.
Between CLEP tests and DANTES...I wrapped up an entire year of college credits by ‘testing-out’ (all free of charge). Before the massive cuts, I walked away with three Associate Degrees and a Bachelor Degree....for what amounted to $4,000 on my part. Today? I doubt if you could accomplish that with their tuition-help for less than $20,000.
Gotta pay for all those illegal alien plane rides somehow...
When I joined in 1968 I was told I would have lifetime health care if I retired. I retired after 26 years. When I went to register with the VA I was told that I didn’t qualify for benefits because I made too much money. I guess if you are successful in life your military sacrifices are negated. Trump was well on the way to reforming the VA. Biden has pretty much destroyed all those reforms.
I agree. I have always viewed it as a well-deserved benefit to those who served in the military. I used it to pay for my college education when I got out...it wasn’t much, but...it was enough to allow me to go to a state college.
This galls me. We send Billions to Ukraine, we give Billons to no-loads who won’t pay what they signed on a dotted line to honor, we give Billions to illegals who HATE this country and just want to suck the teat.
But we give the finger to veterans. Boy, does this make me burn.
Yet Obiden and the democRATs have been pushing to expand educational opportunities for illegals--many of whom are military age males.
Of course they did this on September 11th...
My mom was an army nurse during WWII. In the early sixties when she decided to finish off her bachelor’s she was TOLD that she could use her VA benefits for the cost. Worked out well for her
My Dad had the best answer when the VA asked him how much he made.
“There wasn’t anybody standing by the gangplank of the troopship asking us how much money we made when we were loading to go to war.”
Oh and thank you for your service.
My dad retired from the US Army in 1963. He fought the VA every day until his death in 1990. He won every battle, but it was always a long-drawn-out fight. He even testified before Congress twice in the 70’s.
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