September 24, 2008

Government, Colleges Work to Cater to Veterans Under New GI Bill

By Reeves Wiedeman

Washington

With less than a year remaining until the new GI Bill goes into effect, the federal government is rushing to execute the measure while educating veterans about changes in their tuition benefits.

Congress gave the Department of Veterans Affairs only 13 months to prepare for the new requirements of the bill, which the president signed into law this summer. That deadline has the government scrambling to deal with a series of changes in the bill in a far shorter time frame than the

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