The Obama administration has delayed a new federal requirement that public colleges and universities receiving GI Bill funding provide recent veterans with the benefit of in-state tuition, regardless of their residency.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Bob McDonald on Fridayannounced that he was pushing back the deadline for public institutions to comply with the in-state tuition provision of the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act that Congress passed last August. The provision will now take effect Jan. 1 of next year instead of July 1, 2015.
The law requires public institutions that want to continue receiving veterans’ benefits to charge in-state tuition to any veteran who has come off active duty within the past three years, regardless of whether he or she has established legal residency in the state. Veterans’ spouses and dependents must also receive the benefit.
Without the waiver, the VA would have had to stop the flow of veterans’ educational benefits to colleges and universities that charge recent veterans and their families above the institution’s in-state tuition rate starting on July 1.
As of Friday, only 21 states fully complied with the new requirement, according to the VA.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/19/va-delays-requirement-student-veterans-receive-state-tuition