Wife Wants To Go Back To Vocational School

[john999]

My wife wants to go to a vocational school. I have Chapter 35 benefits for her. How do I crank them up? We have about six months before the program starts. It lasts 11 months. It would be great for her since she is not disabled and needs some activity to make some money and stay busy. It would be a blessing for me too. I can't keep up with her. She needs employment. I wish I could also but I just pay the bills.

John

[halos2]

Don't you just go to the school and talk to the admissions counselor and get all older transcripts sent to them, and talk to the financial aid office and fill out all the necessary forms for school aid ie also for grants, federal aid, student loans, as well as chapt 35 forms.

The school generally have all the necessary forms to fill out for all $ aid necessary for tuition/fees/books, etc.

One has to apply for admission and be accepted to the program, and admissions will direct you/her to financial aid to follow through with the rest. Better to start early as it takes a while to get the process going, and to receive the funding too.

[sharon]

http://www.gibill.va.gov/pamphlets/ch35/ch...let_general.htm

[Berta]

Make sure the vocational school is VA approved.

The best thing I did when I enrolled into college under Chap 35 DEA was to get email addy for the VA liason person at the school and then for VA Educational people.I delt with VA Buffalo for my Chapter 35.

I would email both the course info, course length, and tuition I paid with my student ID number etc in the emails-

DEA money comes after the tuition is paid and the student has been in the course for a few weeks.

One month I got 3 checks in one week as they were behind but it usually went smoothly. I finished my degree under DEA with an on line college.

Your wife -if at a campus-has opportunity to get her DEA course info to the VA perhaps even faster then I did as the VA liason should be readily available at the school.

As others said she needs to apply for the Certificate of Eligibility.

Has she filled out the entire Chapter 35 application yet? It should have come with the DEA award letter.

Unfortunately due to the GI Bill backlog -there can be a 30 minute or more phone wait for a DEA counselor but the college VA liason person should be able to help tremendously getting the ball rolling for her DEA.

The school surely has a web site too and this might help her with enrollment questions.

[Testvet]

My wife wants to go to a vocational school. I have Chapter 35 benefits for her. How do I crank them up? We have about six months before the program starts. It lasts 11 months. It would be great for her since she is not disabled and needs some activity to make some money and stay busy. It would be a blessing for me too. I can't keep up with her. She needs employment. I wish I could also but I just pay the bills.

John

John when me daughters went they dealt with counselors at the school and the did all of the paperwork with the VA, I never had anything to do with it but they never went to a regular college like my son is debating about now, go to college or join the army, I would prefer he go to college first and then if he wants to join the Army

His girlfriend said he was going into the Army for college benefits, I made the mistake of telling her that was foolish since I already had eligibility for him thru both Chaper 35 from VA and here in South Carolina they give children of 100% veterans free tuition at any state college they want to attend he doesn't have to join the military for college thats one bill that is paid for him actually he will get paid to go to college so I don't understand it I hope he isn't joining the military so he can get married because then he will never get a degree I have seen to many people think they can do it all and they can't something usually gives the school, the relationship or they end up in trouble in the military too many things demanding time and that much juggling ends up everywhere

don't get yourself in trouble while she's gone to school rofl

[Berta]

John -I forgot something DEA will more than likely approve the Vocational school-

DEA benefits are different from GI Bill stuff.

http://www.gibill.va.gov/pamphlets/CH35/CH35_Pamphlet.pdf

They even asked me dates of my 2 Certificates-one was Cert in Agriculture (Penn State) and the other was from NVLSP

They sure wont pay to take the NVLSP course but would have paid for my Penn State Cert if it was in the eligibility period.

I also have a Cert in Military Studies too that was paid for under DEA but I also earned degree credits for it-

Your wife might have many options under DEA.I couldnt find my DEA pamphlet but it is at the link above.