Costly Overpayments of Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits

October 23, 2015
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs doled out $416 million in Post-9/11 GI Bill overpayments during the 2014 fiscal year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found in a new report. The VA provided $10.8 billion in GI Bill benefits to 800,000 student veterans last year. But overpayments affected about one in four veteran beneficiaries, according to the GAO report. As of November 2014 the VA still was collecting $152 million in overpayments from last year and another $110 million from previous years.

Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/22/costly-overpayments-post-911-gi-bill-benefits