Give them the gavels and we're right back to the same as to the decades past, especially the previous, which end up costing much much more, but hey it leaves them right there blamin the VA!
Jul 7, 2011 - Legislation aimed at reducing GI Bill overpayments could have disastrous, unintended consequences, causing cash-flow problems for some schools and resulting in some students being barred from attending college if the Veterans Affairs Department is late making a proposed end-of-term payment for tuition and fees.
The fix could be worse than the problem, warned Tom Tarantino, senior legislative associate for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, one of several witnesses at a House hearing who raised doubts Thursday about HR 2301, the Streamlining Education Claims Processing Act of 2011, at a House hearing.
It was an awkward meeting of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s economic opportunity panel because the chief sponsor of the bill is Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., the panel chairman, who said he is just trying to reduce problems now facing veterans if a school is overpaid for tuition and fees because of dropped classes.
The bill, introduced June 22, drew complaints from veterans’ organizations, from two associations representing schools and from VA, which said the idea of waiting until the end of a term to pay tuition and fees to a school might cut down on VA payment errors but would create new problems.
Tarantino said the bill may be “well intentioned” but “the unintended consequences … may completely and totally destroy some veterans’ academic careers and will act as a disincentive for schools to enroll veterans.” read more>>>
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