VA education benefits

Since 2019, the Veteran Employment Through Technology Program has helped over 1,400 VET TEC student Veterans transition to high-tech careers.

In the third guest blog post in this series, Harvard Extension School Instructor Cynthia A. Meyersburg, Ph.D., guides student Veterans on how to prepare for and succeed when returning to an academic school. This post examines tactics for achieving good grades.

Veterans who go through VA’s Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC) pilot program are finding good jobs.

VA today celebrated the 76th Anniversary of the GI Bill. [...]

VET TEC allows Veterans to receive accelerated training in coding bootcamps and similar programs in information science, computer programming, computer software, media application, and data processing. The program is meant to quickly teach Veterans the cutting-edge skills they need to work in the high-tech industry.

From restoring lost education benefits to expanding where they can be used, the Forever GI Bill, brings significant changes to VA education benefits.

“Imagine a government IT project that was built from scratch using internal digital services staff, has never been down and has been widely praised. That’s what the GI Bill Comparison Tool is."

The last days of the Session, both the House and the Senate passed a bill, S. 3447, that altered the Post 9/11 GI Bill and other educational benefits.