Is the Post 9/11 Housing Allowance Paid in Advance?

Hi Scott, the Post 9/11 GI Bill housing allowance is paid in arrears so it will always be a month behind.  I can’t say for sure, but it sounds like that is what went into your account on September 1st, and with you starting classes on August 16th a half month payment would be about right.

Future payments should be about the same time each month, but I wouldn’t always count on them being there right on the first of the month.  It should be pretty close to it though as they process them all at about the same time each month.

Don’t forget that you have to maintain more than 6 credit hours per semester if you are in an undergraduate degree program to keep your Post 9/11 GI Bill housing allowance coming every month.  Sometimes students drop a problem class and forget until it’s too late that it drops them below the level where they qualify for the housing allowance.