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Get Your MGIB $1200 Back

June 23rd, 2009

The Department of Defense released a 31 page memo to further define a number of questions about the implementation of the Post-9/11 GI-Bill (911GIBill).

You should read the entire memo yourself but I took the liberty to take out some initial areas of interest for ease. I will be making additional posts about the transferring of the GI Bill benefit and other issues in later posts;

For Service Academy grads;

Advise all officers without earlier established eligibility, following commissioning through Service Academies, with the exception of the Coast Guard Academy, or Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Scholarship Programs, that their eligibility period of active duty for Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits does not begin until they have completed their statutory obligated active service. Any active duty service after that obligated period of service may qualify as active duty service for Post-9/11 GI Bill eligibility.

Those who used student loan repayment program;

Advise all Service members participating in the student loan repayment program under chapter 109 of Reference (b) (Title 10 U.S. Code) that their service counted under chapter 109 does not count as qualifying active duty service for the Post-9/11 GI Bill Program. Any service after that obligated period of service may qualify as active duty service for Post-9/11 GI Bill eligibility.

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Individuals may receive certian tutorial assistance (up to $100 per month for 12 months, not to exceed a total of $1,200) and reimbursement of one licensing and certification test (not to exceed a total of $2000).

Those who were eligible for Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB), Montgomery GI Bill-Selective Reserve (MGIB-SR), or Reserve Educational Assistance Program (REAP);

…, individuals who were eligible for Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB), Montgomery GI Bill-Selective Reserve (MGIB-SR), or Reserve Educational Assistance Program (REAP), and elect to use benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill will be eligible to receive benefits for programs approved under those provisions that are not authorized for those individuals under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, such as on-the-job training, apprenticeship training, correspondence courses, flight training, preparatory courses, and national exams at the benefit rate for MGIB, MGIB-SR, or REAP, as appropriate.

Getting your MGIB $1,200 Back;

An individual who is described in paragraph 1.e, whose pay was reduced under the provisions of sections 3011(b) or 3012(c) of Reference (b) (Title 10 U.S. Code), will receive a refund of that pay reduction subject to the following:

• (a) A full refund for an individual who used no months of benefit under the MGIB.
• (b) A refund reduced by a proportion calculated by the number of months of MGIB benefits remaining at the time of election divided by 36.
• (c) The refund will be added to the monthly stipend allowance paid in the last month of eligibility under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Individuals who do not exhaust entitlement under the Post-9/11 GI Bill will not receive a refund of the pay reduction.

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