A new survey of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars reveals that those who are using the Post-9/11 GI Bill to attend college have positive feelings about the opportunity—but that the experience hasn’t been without its headaches.
An advocacy group, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, conducted the survey of its members in January. Twenty-nine percent of the 4,278 respondents are using the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which provides eligible veterans with up to 36 months of tuition along with an allowance for housing and a stipend for books. Of those who are not using the federal program, more than half said they planned to do so in the future or to transfer the benefits to a spouse or child. Eighteen percent said they already held a college degree, while 10 percent said they had already used the federal program.
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