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Chapter 35 Education Debt Questions

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If you owe VA, can they take the amount you owe out of your future education checks instead of you paying them back? If you have past tution fees, can VA pay it and take it out of your future education checks?

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Larry-I agree here with Purple-

I wrote to CHap 35 VA people as my daughter had some questions about her Chap 35 entitlement.

Mr. Quall (Buffalo VA Edu) wrote me back a very nice letter reminding me that my daughter was an adult (and a veteran too) so she would have to write to them herself.

My baby girl (USAF)-as all of you here were too-- was willing to die for her country but I still wonder if she looks both ways when she crosses a street.

However- when Chap 35 awarded her one month of Chapter 35 (it was one month before her 26th birthday- Mommy prepared a scathing NOD-and included the actual regs they ignored.

She cursed so much when she got the first letter-I thought she had re- enlisted into the Marine Corps.

But I just Honey-WELCOME to my world!!!

I sent the NOD to her in DC and she agreed with it and signed it and again included her DD 214 and the original Chap 35 app they had which made it quote clear that they were wrong on the one month-due to her veteran's status.

Three weeks later the VA sent her the proper entitlement- 7 years of Chap 35 eligibility due to 7 years of military service.

The CHapter 35 person has to straighten this all out with VA themselves- but we can help more if we know exactly what the VA stated to them.

GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University !

When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief

Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was

simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we."

Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we.

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The VA will take out monies owed from a Chap35 benefit if the overpayment was for chap35 benefits. My daughter is going through this right now, she did a late drop on 2 classes and did not notify the VA causing an overpayment because she was not fulltime but got paid the full rate.

The VA has taken half of her check until the monies are recovered which for her will be the 1st of Feb.

I do know that if you are in dire straights with tuition or books, you can ask for an advance on the benefits. How long it would take to get I do not know but there is a program in place.

Berta,

The chap35 program under which you had to do certain things you refer to has confused me from day one. I do not know why you had to submitt the info to the VA to get your benefits paid after you paid your tuition.

I have had both kids and my wife under Chap35, the VA required nothing but confirmation from the college that they were students and how many hours they were taking and the checks came to them the 1st of every month for them to use anyway they wanted to. It seems as though you had to jump through several hoops to get paid.

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Do yourself a favor.....buy some gold and silver! The printing presses are in overdrive.

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There is a program in place where a person using Chap 35 can ask to receive their initial (at the beginning of each semester) payment in advance rather than after the fact. I don't know all the details of it...my son was informed of it if he ever needed to use it that all he had to do was let the VA education office at his school know ahead of time and they would take care of the paperwork for him.

They are very good at his college.

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JR-this is an online university and I believe I might have been the only Chapter 35 student they had since the school was established.

Most of the students at AMU are enlisted or officers and get the GI Bill- it is an online military University- and they are set up to make the GI bill payments go smoothly.

When I heard I was only second civilian ever enrolled at AMU, making me think probably I might have been only Chapter 35er too,- I used email to make my Chapter 35 go as smoothly as I could.

The school had no format in their student guide for Chapter 35 , nor could I find any specific format at the VA Educational Icon for handling online tuition and courses

being paid under Chap 35.

(after I graduated last year they changed all this and now have Chapter 35 info at their web site)

http://www.amu.apus.edu/TuitionandFees/GI-...A-Benefits.htm)

GRADUATE ! Nov 2nd 2007 American Military University !

When thousands of Americans faced annihilation in the 1800s Chief

Osceola's response to his people, the Seminoles, was

simply "They(the US Army)have guns, but so do we."

Sameo to us -They (VA) have 38 CFR ,38 USC, and M21-1- but so do we.

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Berta,

I thought it might have had something to do with AMU, but I wasn't certain. Again you have caused some change.

Do yourself a favor.....buy some gold and silver! The printing presses are in overdrive.

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