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Veteran and Military Educational Benefits
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If you are a Veteran, you may be eligible for the GI Bill or other military education benefits. You may also be eligible for disability services, tutoring services, financial aid or work-study employment.
Montgomery GI Bill
The Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty program provides up to 36 months of education benefits. These benefits may be used for degree and certificate programs, apprenticeship/on-the-job training and correspondence courses. Vocational flight training is approved from September 30, 1990. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances. Generally, benefits are payable for 10 years following your release from active duty.
For more information: http://www.gibill.va.gov/GI_Bill_Info/benefits.htm
Veterans Educational Assistance Program (VEAP)
VEAP is available if you first entered active duty between January 1, 1977 and June 30, 1985 and you elected to make contributions from your military pay to participate in this education benefit program.
For more information: http://www.gibill.va.gov/GI_Bill_Info/benefits.htm#VEAP
Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program (DEA)
The DEA program offers up to 45 months of education benefits. Spouses and children of veterans who were disabled or died of a service-related condition may be eligible.
For more information: http://www.gibill.va.gov/pamphlets/ch35/ch35_pamphlet_general.htm
Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Service (VR&E)
Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) provides vocational rehabilitation services to veterans with service-connected disabilities, helping our injured veterans with disabilities achieve a seamless transition from military service to successful rehabilitation to suitable employment after service to our Nation. For more information: http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/index.htm
State of Illinois Veteran Grant (IVG)
This program pays tuition and fees for either undergraduate study at any Illinois public college, university or community college for those veterans who were honorably discharged with at least one year of full-time active duty.
For more information: http://www.collegezone.com/studentzone/416_962.htm
Illinois National Guard (ING) Grant
The Illinois National Guard Grant pays tuition and fees at Illinois public colleges and community colleges for eligible members of the Illinois National Guard. The grant can be used for a maximum of the equivalent of eight semesters or 12 quarters.
For more information, visit: http://www.collegezone.com/studentzone/416_964.htm
MIA-POW Scholarship
Dependents of a person who was an Illinois resident at the time he or she entered active duty and has been declared to be a prisoner of war, missing in action, or dead as a result of a service-connected disability, or disabled with a 100 percent disability as the result of a service-connected cause may be eligible to receive the MIA/POW Scholarship. For more information:
http://www.collegezone.com/studentzone/416_1498.htm
http://www.veterans.illinois.gov/benefits.htm
Student Work-Study Allowance Program
Full-time or 3/4-time students in a college degree program or a vocational or professional program, can "earn while they learn" with a VA Work-Study Allowance.For more information: http://www.gibill.va.gov/pamphlets/wkstud.htm
