Post-9/11 GI Bill

Military Service Members and Veterans wishing to apply for and use their Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits should follow our Getting Started Guide.

The Post-9/11 GI Bill is a new education benefit program for individuals who served on active duty on or after September 11, 2001.

Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits are payable for training pursued on or after August 1, 2009. No payments can be made under this program for training pursued before that date.

You may be eligible if you served at least 90 aggregate days on active duty after September 10, 2001, and you are still on active duty or you were honorably:

• discharged from active duty; or
• released from active duty and placed on the retired list or temporary disability retired list; or
• released from active duty and transferred to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve; or
• released from active duty for further service in a reserve component of the Armed Forces.

You may also be eligible if you were honorably discharged from active duty for a service-connected disability and you served 30 continuous days after September 10, 2001.

NOTE: Once you elect to receive benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, you will no longer be eligible to receive benefits under the program from which you elected the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

Based on your length of active duty service, you are entitled to a percentage of the following:

• cost of tuition and fees, not to exceed the most expensive in-state undergraduate tuition at a public institution of higher education (paid to school);
• monthly housing allowance equal to the basic allowance for housing payable to a military E-% with dependents, in the same zip code as your school (paid to you).

NOTE: The housing allowance, books and supplies stipend are not payable to individuals on active duty. The housing allowance is not payable to those pursuing training at half time or six credits or less or to individuals enrolled only in distance learning.

• Yearly books and supplies stipend of up to $1,000 per year (paid to you); and
• a one-time payment of $500 paid to certain individuals relocating from highly rural areas.

Generally, you may receive up to 36 months of entitlement under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

You will be eligible for benefits for 15 years from your last period of active duty of at least 90 consecutive days. If you were released for a service connected disability after at least 30 days of continuous service, you will also be eligible for benefits for 15 years.

For more information regarding the Post-9/11 GI Bill please contact any of NOVA’s Veterans Advisors.

For the most up to day information regarding Post-9/11 GI Bill please visit the GI Bill website.