Education
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Here’s how to turn your MOS into a civilian health care career
Type of content: News
Here’s the truth: Your military medical occupation training provided you with top-notch education and experience that most civilian programs cannot. You’ve not only received traditional instructional training, but you’ve learned and practiced in some of the best medical labs with the latest simulation technology available. Most importantly, your training gave you real-world, high-pressure experience that cannot be duplicated in traditional civilian training programs.
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VA Inspector General Cites Poor Oversight of College Programs Approved for GI Benefits
Type of content: News
onse states.
The VBA questioned the audit's methodology and said it was biased toward for-profit schools, which only represent one in five institutions where students receive military benefits. Out of 70 institutions sampled in the audit, 50 were for-profits.
The VBA also disagreed with the audit's assessment that the relationship between the VBA and the SAAs is weak.
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Vets interested in STEM degrees could get more GI Bill money in 2019
Type of content: News
Some college degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields take longer than four years to complete, which is why the new Forever GI Bill authorizes an additional school year of GI Bill funds on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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1,300 disabled vets are getting billed for thousands of dollars ... because VA didn’t check their email
Type of content: News
Approximately 1,300 disabled veterans were overpaid thousands of dollars under a Veterans Affairs Department education benefits program last year and now must figure out a way to pay that money back.
Why? Mostly because staff at VA regional offices didn’t check emails, a recent investigation by the VA Office of Inspector General has found.
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How Veterans Can Protect Against Financial Scams
Type of content: News
Americans lost almost $1 billion to scam artists last year according to the FTC. And veterans lost almost twice as much as the general public. AARP research found that 16% of veterans lost money to scammers. Why did that happen?
Veterans will normally trust another person who contacts them and claims to be a veteran. In addition many veterans are suffering from PTSD, which makes them more vulnerable to the emotional manipulation used by scam artists.
What are the scam artists’ primary techniques when approaching veterans?
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- Peer Support
- VA
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Here’s why veteran entrepreneurs have a harder time getting financing than nonvets
Type of content: News
Everyone needs seed money to start a business. But veteran entrepreneurs usually have a harder time getting financing than their nonveteran counterparts, a new study finds.
Veterans had to submit more applications to get approved for loans and other types of financing, and when they eventually were approved, it was often for less money than they were seeking, according to data from the latest annual Federal Reserve Banks’ Small Business Credit Survey.
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Many disabled veterans eligible for student loan forgiveness are still paying
Type of content: News
The Education Department says it has identified more than 40,000 veterans who qualify to have their student debt canceled through what is called a "total and permanent disability discharge."
More than 25,000 of them are in default, however, and just 8,500 have even applied for the forgiveness. The government did not say it has discharged any of the debts of these eligible veterans.
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- Benefits
- Education
- Physical Well-Being
- VA
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Everything you need to know about tuition assistance, by service
Type of content: News
Did you know that you can earn a degree in the military without spending a penny of your own money and without using up any of your GI Bill benefits?
Through a benefit called tuition assistance, or TA, active-duty service members can take classes in pursuit of a college degree on the military’s dime.
TA covers $250 per semester hour, with a yearly cap, but each service can set its own requirements, and some rules vary.
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This program could lead to IT careers for military spouses with starting salaries of $70K
Type of content: News
Some military spouses in Washington state have started training for long-term portable careers in technology, with average starting salaries of about $70,000 a year, under a free pilot program launched by Microsoft.
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Here’s why your child’s school is asking whether you’re active duty
Type of content: News
If you’re wondering why your child’s school asked whether a parent is active duty, it’s because for the first time, schools are being required to collect and report data on assessments of military children.
It’s anticipated that states and school districts around the country will start reporting that data later this year, according to the Department of Education. The data will be based on performance records from the 2017-2018 school year; generally states release their report cards in the winter following the school year, officials said.
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