Just ran into another one. Please Please Please pass this information on a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, space force, anyone active getting ready to ETS. Even for NG and Reserves: When you go to do your paperwork for ETS or retirement, put every injury whether it is a broken bone, strain, concussion, hearing loss, on and on. List everything! You will be scheduled for an exam at the VA. The examining Dr., will give his ruling and you may be entitled to a disability rating and/or check. Here is where it gets good.....Even if the VA does NOT give you compensation but agrees you have a disability rating (this would be 0%), each of your children get 124 semester hours of college paid for IF they attend an Indiana supported college like IU, Purdue, Ball State, SIU, etc. It does work for private colleges. It is most important they make a copy of their medical records before they leave service. Oh yeah, if the veteran applies for a home loan, the 1% funding fee is waived. You have to tell them you have a disability rating.
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My daughters both used the Indiana Remission of Fees program to attend college. One at IUPUI and one at Ball State.
I hand carried the documents down to the Indiana State Government building and got them processed by the state Veterans Affairs office. They were very helpful. Could have done it through the mail, but I did not want anything to get "lost".
And make sure you keep your own copy of the documentation for these.
When I was retiring the USAF was still shifting from paper to digital records, and the paper record was still king. There was ONE official copy of the medical record and if the clinic lost it, it was gone.. unless you had your own copy at home. At my outprocessing appointment with the people helping me with my VA application, there was a guy at the next table with back injuries from a helicopter crash, but that section of his records was missing.
Nowadays, everything should be digital and therefore easy to back up and access from various places, but… I worked in information systems for a long time and stuff still disappears.
THIS. My Brother in Law broke his leg jumping down off a deuce and a half on his return from the sandbox. All of his kids are attending college and paying very little comparatively (room and board, etc)
He even adopted his stepson so he could get the benefits as well.
He even adopted his stepson so he could get the benefits as well.
Comment #1 should have had a NOT in the sentence; It does work for private colleges. It simply means NOT. However, some colleges do give a partial discount or partial scholarship for children of Veterans and Veterans too. You have to ask.
This was changed years ago. For those who entered service after July 1, 2011, there is a formula.
Tuition and Fee Exemption
OK, thanks, I'll check it out. You don't know the formula?
You are right, they did change it. Just found it. State pays 20% plus whatever % disability rating you have. Thanks.
Thanks… 40 odd years too late…, the VA tells me that none of my ailments are “service related”
@MrSmitty please don’t give up.
Get your med records look at anything you went to sickcall for make a list. Claim it to the VA you earned your benefits by signing on the line. You promised your life if you are suffering you deserve your benefit's.
The VA has improved over the past few years.
Get your med records look at anything you went to sickcall for make a list. Claim it to the VA you earned your benefits by signing on the line. You promised your life if you are suffering you deserve your benefit's.
The VA has improved over the past few years.
Slightly unrelated, but since I have your attention:
DO NOT ASSUME A DD-214-SUBSIDIZED VA HOME LOAN IS WHAT YOU NEED.
The VA Home Loan serves a very specific purpose, and it does it well.
That being said, it is not always your best option. At all.
Find somebody you can trust. Ask. Listen.
DO NOT ASSUME A DD-214-SUBSIDIZED VA HOME LOAN IS WHAT YOU NEED.
The VA Home Loan serves a very specific purpose, and it does it well.
That being said, it is not always your best option. At all.
Find somebody you can trust. Ask. Listen.
Getting it on your records before you retire is important...it took me 3 years to get an appointment at the VA for a disability evaluation. But it was worth it as the daughter is now going to Purdue. And I have hard copies of all my active duty medical records so it shouldn't have been that hard; but it's government health care so what are you going to do, not that I use them for anything else.
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