Can My Daughter Use an ROTC Scholarship and my GI Bill Benefits?

Hi Mike,  The 4 year ROTC Scholarships that I am familiar with pretty much pay for all of the student’s costs while earning their undergraduate degree.  They even provide a monthly allowance for incidental costs.  It is very close to the financial package students who attend service academies receive.

Any costs that you or your daughter might have to pay should be very minimal, so I’m not sure why you would want to involve your transferred Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits at all.  My advice would be to let them sit like money in the bank, and if your daughter decides she wants to earn a graduate degree, they are going to be there for her to use.  She has until she turns 26 to use the benefits.

Other options would be for you to revoke the transfer and use the Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits yourself or transfer them to another dependent child.  It just seems like a waste to me to try and use 2 great military education benefits programs like an ROTC Scholarship and the Post 9/11 GI Bill at the same time as their benefits are going to overlap so much.  I am not aware of any sites which address the issue and don’t know of anyone who has tried to use both benefits at the same time.