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Visit www.gibill.va.gov for information regarding what you must do to activate your benefits. Additionally, you may be eligible for all federal and state need based aid and MAY be eligible for loans depending on your chapter of eligibility. You must file your FAFSA at www.fafsa.ed.gov to be eligible for federal and state need based grants (and loans, if eligible). Notify the financial aid office of the school you are planning to enroll in. They should be able to tell you how to go about establishing your benefit and explaining the possible effect on your financial aid eligibility.
If you have other financial aid, it should be able to cover your expenses while waiting for your VA benefits to kick in. Otherwise, you would have to pay in advance for your courses.
As an aside, be sure to thoroughly check out the online college. If it is not attached to a brick and mortar college, they may not be the best deal. Make sure the school is not only accredited but that they participate in a macrao agreement. A macrao agreement assures that your credits will transfer to other institutions should you decide to attend someplace else. Additionally, they are usually much more expensive than attending a community college or public four year college or university.
Good luck.
Get a student loan and defer it, then go through the Military to get it paid for....don't have your commander do it, seemed he always lost mine, go through all the steps yourself...one draw back is that when you get the loan out they won't pay the interest that accumalates so try and get your paperwork going as soon as possible! Once you get all your paperwork together and send it off then it only takes about a month maybe less for them to pay it. the form you need is the DD 2475, which you can get off the online form area you also have to have a copy of your contract that states that you qualify for tuition reimbursement and the amount you qualify for I want to say that the address is the following however I am not sure so you can call 18003185298
US Army Human Resource Command
ATT: RSW-BB-A
1 Reserve Way
St. Louis, MI
63132-500
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Are you active duty? If you are, the military is paying 100% of all your school while you are in, you do not need to take out a loan or use your GI bill. Go to the Education office on base and ask them for the details-
My husband did this and went to U of Phoenix online, did not have to pay a dime or get a loan or use his gi bill
If you are not active duty, ask to speak to a va rep from the college you are going to
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