Chapter 33, Post GI Bill education benefits are based on how long the honorably discharged veteran served on active duty after September 10th, 2001. To receive your full benefits you must have served for three years of active duty September 10th, 2001.

If you are going to school now under the Montgomery GI Bill be careful if you are thinking of switching from the old; Chapter 30 to the new Chapter 33, as the switch is irrevocable, and it may actually be less money.

90 consecutive days 40 percent
6 months cumulative 50 percent
12 months cumulative 60 percent
18 months cumulative 70 percent
24 months cumulative 80 percent
30 months cumulative 90 percent
36 months cumulative 100 percent.

The Dependents of a 100% Disabled Veteran also receive benefits for 45 months of education. In many States the tuition is waived for dependents of the disabled. This provision does not exist in Arizona, as a result of unenlightened leadership. This writer intends to lobby to change this status for Arizona veterans.

Any way you look at this, Yogi Bera would still say; “cash it is kinda like money.”