Comments on: Is there a Time Limit to Use the GI Bill? http://www.gibill.com/blog/is-there-a-time-limit-to-use-the-gi-bill.html Answers to all your GI Bill questions Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:10:22 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ron Kness http://www.gibill.com/blog/is-there-a-time-limit-to-use-the-gi-bill.html/comment-page-1#comment-17301 Ron Kness Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:03:06 +0000 http://www.gibill.com/blog/?p=3081#comment-17301 Why the 10-year limit? It is the way Congress wrote the Montgomery GI Bill. I don't imagine there was any real logic in the determination, except they probably felt that giving veterans 10-years after discharge was enough time to use the benefits. Unfortunately for many veterans, the time has slipped away and they have lost their education benefits. For others, it is a lack of knowledge. Some veterans think they have 10 years to use their benefits <strong>once they start</strong> using them. The delimiting time for the new Post 9/11 GI Bill is 15 years, so they evidently learned something when they drafted the new bill. Ron Why the 10-year limit? It is the way Congress wrote the Montgomery GI Bill. I don’t imagine there was any real logic in the determination, except they probably felt that giving veterans 10-years after discharge was enough time to use the benefits.

Unfortunately for many veterans, the time has slipped away and they have lost their education benefits. For others, it is a lack of knowledge. Some veterans think they have 10 years to use their benefits once they start using them.

The delimiting time for the new Post 9/11 GI Bill is 15 years, so they evidently learned something when they drafted the new bill.

Ron

]]> By: Lynn Taylor http://www.gibill.com/blog/is-there-a-time-limit-to-use-the-gi-bill.html/comment-page-1#comment-17295 Lynn Taylor Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:58:49 +0000 http://www.gibill.com/blog/?p=3081#comment-17295 Why the limit of time, I'm still a veteran and feel that just because it's more than 10 years I still should have the right to use my benefits for education. It's like after 10 years I'm no longer considered a veteran. Perhaps I should mail my medals back in too. Why the limit of time, I’m still a veteran and feel that just because it’s more than 10 years I still should have the right to use my benefits for education. It’s like after 10 years I’m no longer considered a veteran. Perhaps I should mail my medals back in too.

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