VA Secretary Promises Full GI Bill Housing Benefits Payments

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie issued the following statement on GI Bill Housing Benefit Payments: "To clear up any confusion, I want to make clear that each and every post-9/11 GI Bill beneficiary will be made 100 percent whole, retroactively if need be, for their housing benefits for this academic year based on Forever GI Bill rates and not on post-9/11 GI Bill rates. Although VA has encountered issues with implementing the Forever GI Bill on Congress' timeline, we will work with lawmakers to ensure that, once VA is in a position to process education claims in accordance with the new law, each and every beneficiary will receive retroactively the exact benefits to which they are entitled under that law."

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