How To Use Your Benefits

How to Use Your Benefits at Rutgers

Students who wish to use veterans' educational benefits must identify themselves to the Office of Veteran and Military Programs and Services so that proper enrollment certification procedures can be initiated for the following entitlement programs.  If you don’t know what Chapter you are claiming, please contact the Veterans Benefits Administration within the Department of Veterans Affairs, 24/7 at 1-888-442-4551. 
    
If you're a full-time or 3/4-time student in a college degree, vocational, or professional program, you can “earn while you learn” with a VA work-study allowance. The VA work-study allowance is available to persons utilizing VA Education Benefits to pay for school. To find out more about position openings and to apply contact Fred Davis, Director of Rutgers–Camden OMVA.
    
If you plan on using Tuition Assistance (TA), you must receive approval from your Educational Services Officer (ESO) or counselor prior to enrolling at Rutgers.

Title 38 USC 3679 (e)

Veterans Benefits and Transition Act of 2018 S.2248 Section 103.1.(b)

 A Covered Individual is any individual who is entitled to educational assistance under chapter 31, Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment, or chapter 33, Post-9/11 GI Bill ®benefits.

Your policy must ensure that your educational institution will not impose any penalty, including the assessment of late fees, the denial of access to classes, libraries, or other institutional facilities, or the requirement that a covered individual borrow additional funds, on any covered individual because of the individual’s inability to meet his or her financial obligations to the institution due to the delayed disbursement funding from VA under chapter 31 or 33.

Your policy must permit any covered individual to attend or participate in the course of education during the period beginning on the date on which the individual provides to the educational institution a certificate of eligibility for entitlement to educational assistance under chapter 31 or 33 a “certificate of eligibility” can also include a “Statement of Benefits” obtained from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) website – eBenefits, or a VAF 28-1905 form for chapter 31 authorization purposes) and ending on the earlier of the following dates:

• The date on which payment from VA is made to the institution.
• 90 days after the date the institution certified tuition and fees following the receipt of the certificate of eligibility.

The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014

For courses, semesters, or terms beginning after July 1, 2017, public institutions of higher education must charge qualifying veterans, dependents, and eligible individuals tuition and fees at the rate for in-state residents. Any institution not meeting this requirement will be disapproved by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill® and the Montgomery G.I. Bill®.

 For courses, semesters, or terms beginning after March 1st, 2019, public institutions of higher education must charge individuals using education assistance under chapter 31, Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) the in-state residential rate.

NJ MILITARY PERSONNEL - RESIDENCY STATUS FOR STUDENTS ACT - ATTENDANCE AT STATE-RELATED AND STATE-OWNED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES, APPLICABILITY AND ELIGIBILITY

The term "resident" or "residency," or any other term or expression used to designate a state resident student, when used to determine the rate of tuition to be charged students attending community colleges, public institutions of higher learning and State-related and State-owned institutions of higher learning shall be construed to mean and include any veterans, their spouses and dependent children who do not currently reside in New Jersey. The term shall also be construed to mean and include military personnel [or their dependents], their spouses and dependent children who are assigned to an active-duty station in Pennsylvania and who reside in Pennsylvania and any civilian personnel [or their dependents], their spouses and dependent children employed at a Department of Defense facility who are transferred to Pennsylvania by the Department of Defense and who reside in Pennsylvania.

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