How Do I Tell the VA I’m Using Tuition Assistance for This Term?

Flor, somewhere along the line, I’m missing something in your question. If you are using Tuition Assistance (TA), your service branch will pay up to $250 per credit with a $4,500 annual cap. If your tuition is less than that amount, VA would not get involved. If it is more than that, then you could use Tuition Top-Up and the VA would pay the amount of tuition over the $250 per credit, up to your monthly GI Bill amount, and deduct the amount from your entitlement.

If you just want to tell the VA you are using TA for this term, then just send them a new VA Form 22-1990 with the TA box checked and explain in the remarks section what you are doing this term. If you go back to using your GI Bill after this term, then send in another VA Form 22-1990.

I guess I’m also questioning why you are not using TA anyway until you hit your annual cap. It is free money and even with Top-Up, you would use less of your Montgomery GI Bill benefits than you would otherwise.