Educational Benefits for Veterans and their
Dependents
Chapter 30: New G.I. Bill
The New G.I. Bill program is designed
to provide up to 36 months of education benefits
for elligible veterans. In order to qualify, you
must be on active duty or have been for at least
two years and have had your military pay reduced
by $100 a month for 12 months of active duty.
This benefit can be used for degree and certificate
programs, flight training, correspondence courses
and on-the-job training. Benefits are payable
for 10 years following discharge from active duty.
Chapter 32: V.E.A.P.
You are eligible for the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans'
Educational Assistance Program (V.E.A.P.) if you
first entered active duty between 31 December
1976 and 1 July 1985, made contributions from
your military pay to this education benefit program,
served a continous period of 181 days or more
and your discharge from service was other than
dishonorable. Your contributions will be matched
on a two for one basis by the Government.This
benefit may be used for degree and certificate
programs, flight training, on-the-job training
and correspondence courses.
Chapter 1606: G.I. Bill - Selected Reserve (Formerly
CHP 106)
The G.I. Bill-SR is available to members of the
Selected Reserve who have a six year obligation,
completed Initial Active Duty Training, and serve
in a drilling Selected Reserve unit. The Selected
Reserve includes the Army Reserve, Navy Reserve,
Air Force Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Coast
Guard Reserve, the Army National Guard and the
Air National Guard. Benefits received can be used
towards degree and certificate programs, flight
training, correspondence courses and on-the-job
training.
Chapter 1607: G.I. Bill - Selected Reserve (R.E.A.P.)
Chapter 35: D.E.A.
The Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance
Program (DEA) provides financial aid for the education
of dependent children and spouses of veterans
who were permanently and totally disabled, or
died while on active duty, due to a service-related
condition. Also eligible are dependents of servicepersons
missing in action or forcibly detained in the
line of duty by a foreign government or hostile
force. Under this entitlement, eligible persons
may receive up to 45 months of education benefits.
R.E.P.S.: Restored Entitlement Program for Survivors
This program restores Social Security benefits
that were reduced or ended by Public Law 97 -
35 for the surviving spouses and children of members
of the Armed Forces who died while on active duty,
or died as a result of disabilities incurred while
on active duty, before August 13, 1981.
CAL-VET
The California college fee waiver program for
veterans dependents allows the waiver of all "state
mandated" fees at State of California Community
College, Campus of the University of California,
and Campus of the California State University
system. You must quilify under one of the following
plans to receive this benefit:
- PLAN A --- Be the spouse, child, or
unmarried surviving spouse of a veteran who
is totally sevice-connected disabled, or died
of service-related causes.
- PLAN B ---- Be the child of a veteran
who has a service-connected disability, or had
a service-connected disability at the time of
death, or who died of service-related causes.
- PLAN C ---- Any dependent, or surviving
spouse who has not remarried, of any member
of the California National Guard, who in the
line of duty, was killed, died of a disability
resulting from an event that occurred, or is
permanently disabled as a result of an event
that occured while in the acitve service of
the state.
Chapter 31: Vocational Rehabilitation
A veteran can be eligible for Chapter 31 benefits
if he or she received or aggraveted a service-connected
disability on or after September 16, 1940, which
entitles him or her to DVA didability compensation
and who is in need of vocational rehabilitataion
because his or her disability creates an employment
handicap. Benefits may be provided for up to 48
months and are available for 12 years from the
date when the veteran is notified of entitlement
to DVA.
Individualized Tutorial Assistance
Tutorial assistance is available for veterans
training under Chapters 30, 32, 35 and 1606 erolled
in a postsecondary educational program on at least
a half-time basis who have a deficiency in a subject
that is a prerequisite or is indispensable to
the satisfactory pursuit of the approved program.
Assitance is a supplement to the veteran's monthly
education assistance check and is paid without
any entitlement charge for those under Chapater
35. Veterans under Chapters 30, 32 and 1606 will
have their entitlements charged for tutorial assistance
paid in excess of $600. The maximum assistance
to which a claimant will be eligible is $1,200.
TOP LEFT: Angel
Roque, Army, UCI Class of 2000
BOTTOM RIGHT: W. John Caldwell, Marines, UCI Class
of 2002
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