Lawmakers: Protect new GI Bill living stipends

Lawmakers: Protect new GI Bill living stipends
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Apr 12, 2011 12:57:07 EDT
Two California lawmakers have joined forces to try to prevent Post-9/11 GI Bill living stipends from being cut off between school terms for thousands of students.

Reps. Susan Davis, a Democrat, and Duncan Hunter, a Republican, are co-sponsoring what they are calling the Post 9/11 GI Bill Payment Restoration Act, which would prevent a cutoff of interval payments between terms, quarters or semesters that is scheduled to take effect on Aug. 1.

About 270,000 student veterans will lose money under that provision of law, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. How much they will lose will depend on the living stipend for their school, and the length of the break.

Denying interval payments, which in some cases have been paid for up to eight weeks a year for full-time students, was included in an overhaul of the Post-9/11 GI Bill approved by Congress in December and signed by President Obama in January.
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