Benefits for Veterans in College Should Be Processed Within 12 Days, VA Says

The Veterans Affairs Department announced today that it was committed to processing benefit payments for veterans attending college by February 1 and that it hoped to avoid the long delays that plagued students who were waiting for benefits from the Post-9/11 GI Bill last fall. The department, which almost doubled its staff to process the higher-than-anticipated number of claims in the fall, said it had already processed 72,000 of some 103,000 applications it received for spring enrollments.