To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the elimination of delimiting dates under the educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · November 20, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
The Veterans Education is Timeless Act of 2023 eliminates time limits on when veterans can use their education benefits. Currently, veterans must use their benefits within a certain number of years after leaving the military, but this bill removes those deadlines entirely, allowing veterans to access educational assistance at any point in their lives. The legislation applies to five major VA education programs: the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the All Volunteer Force Educational Assistance Program, the Post-Vietnam Educational Assistance Program, the Fry Scholarship for dependents of deceased veterans, and the Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program. The changes take effect immediately upon enactment and apply retroactively to anyone who has been entitled to these benefits in the past, present, or future. The bill does not specify new funding but rather restructures existing benefit programs to remove administrative time restrictions.
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