VA wants emergency GI Bill payouts back p1 - GI Bill Benefits - Tuition Assistance for the Military - Military Times EDGE

The Veterans Affairs Department has started the process of recouping $3,000 emergency payments sent last year to about 80,000 people whose Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits were delayed.

If the $3,000 checks were never cashed, they can simply be returned, VA officials said. If they were cashed, the $3,000 must be repaid either through reductions in spring semester GI Bill benefits for those who are attending school or by direct payments to VA for those who are not enrolled.

People who got the payments should have received a letter about their repayment options. Those who don’t establish a repayment plan with the VA’s Debt Management Center will have their education benefit payments reduced by $750 monthly starting in April.

Go to www.gibill.va.gov/advpayrecovery.htm for more information.