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Chapter 33 Post 9/11 GI Bill - Active Duty
Chapter 33 Post 9/11 GI Bill - Active Duty program provides up to 36 months of education benefits. Generally, benefits are payable for 15 years following your release from active duty. Eligibility criteria can be found on the GI Bill Web site.

How do I apply for Chapter 33 Benefits?
  1. Complete VA Form 22-1990, Application for Educational Benefits which can be completed online at Veterans Online Application (VONAPP) Web site.  Please submit a copy of the application to MSOE's Veteran's Certifying Official once completed online.

    OR

    If you have previously received VA educational benefits, you will need to complete VA Form 22-1995, Request for Change of Program or Place of Training Form which can be completed online at Veterans Online Application (VONAPP) Web site.  Please submit a copy of the application to MSOE's Veteran's Certifying Official once completed online.
  2. Submit a copy of your Certificate of Eligibility to MSOE's Veteran's Certifying Official.
  3. Submit a copy of your DD-214 to MSOE's Veteran's Certifying Official.
  4. Complete and submit MSOE's Veterans Benefits Payment Agreement which is available for download and printing or a copy may be picked up in the MSOE Financial Aid Office. This must be done every academic year if you wish to have MSOE certify your benefits for the year.

Payment Information

Tuition & fees payment (paid directly to the school) not to exceed the tuition & fees at the most expensive state Institution of Higher Learning (IHL).  For the 2009-2010 Academic year, the tuition amount paid is $663/credit prorated based on eligibility.  Veterans Administration will also pay laptop fee for full-time students prorated based on eligibility.

Yellow Ribbon program allows MSOE to fund tuition expenses that exceed the highest public in-state undergraduate tuition rate.  MSOE will contribute up to 50% of those expenses and VA will match the same amount as the institution.  The Veteran must be 100% eligible for the Post 9/11 GI Bill to receive this benefit.

Monthly housing allowance based on the Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) for an E-5 with dependents. This amount is $1251/month for the 2009 calendar year. Students greater than 50% enrolled per term will be eligible for the full monthly housing allowance.  Students enrolled for 50% or less will not receive a housing allowance.

Annual book stipend of $1,000 paid at $41.67/credit up to 24 credits for the academic year.

You may also receive a one-time rural benefit payment of $500.00 if you reside in a county with 6 persons or less per square mile (as determined by the most recent decennial census) and:

  1. either physically relocate at least 500 miles to attend an educational institution or
  2. travel by air to physically attend an educational institution if no other land-based transportation exists