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malaise

(268,930 posts)
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 02:41 PM Nov 2018

Remember the uproar when there were computer glitches with Obamacare

They're oh so quiet about the mess related to the GI bill

https://rebootcamp.militarytimes.com/news/education/2018/09/27/no-end-in-sight-for-gi-bill-payment-problems/

Under the Forever GI Bill, signed into law by President Trump last year, the VA was supposed to change the way it calculates monthly housing stipends for students attending classes at a location other than their school’s main campus, starting Aug. 1. Payments were also supposed to reflect the same 2018 rate that an active-duty E-5 with dependents would receive for housing.

These changes required significant updates for the VA’s Office of Information and Technology, which encountered “several critical errors” during testing, VA spokesman Curt Cashour said in an email.

Rather than move forward with a flawed system, the VA has told schools to certify students’ GI Bill claims under the old rules, resulting in inaccurate payments to about 360,000 of the 392,459 currently using GI Bill benefits.

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