{"id":73774,"date":"2017-08-03T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73774"},"modified":"2017-08-03T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:01:51","slug":"new-gi-bill-goes-to-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73774","title":{"rendered":"New GI Bill goes to President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends a link to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/education-transition\/education\/2017\/08\/02\/new-gi-bill-passes-senate\/#.WYKLHl9gnR8.email\"> Navy Times<\/a> which reports that the Senate has voted to pass the latest GI Bill and that it&#8217;s on the way to the President&#8217;s desk for his signature;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new GI Bill would bring significant changes to the current law passed in 2008. Among its most popular provisions are the elimination \u2014 for veterans who left the military in 2013 or later \u2014 of a 15-year use-or-lose rule, as well as the expansion of benefits for reservists, Purple Heart recipients and surviving dependents. It would also restore GI Bill benefits to veterans impacted by school closures since 2015 and allocate more funds for college degree programs in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.<\/p>\n<p>If the Forever GI Bill becomes law, some of the provisions would take effect Jan. 1, 2018. Others would start next August, and others \u2014 like granting active-duty service members eligibility for the Yellow Ribbon Program \u2014 would not apply for a few more years.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., ranking member on Isakson\u2019s committee, said the legislation will open doors for service members transitioning back to civilian life and aid them in their transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also does right by Guardsmen and Reservists by getting them the education, housing and healthcare that they have earned,\u201d he said. \u201cI look forward to working with President Trump to quickly sign our bill into law.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends a link to the Navy Times which reports that the Senate has voted to &hellip; <a title=\"New GI Bill goes to President Trump\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73774\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New GI Bill goes to President Trump<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}