Alert For WI GI Bill Recipients
Your benefits may be changing! Please go to the following website for updates:
http://gibill.wisconsin.edu/
Veterans' Financial Aid GI Bill recipients can use their Veterans Administration (VA) benefits to pay for MATC college expenses. Veterans may also be eligible for other types of financial assistance, such as Financial Aid (www.fafsa.ed.gov) MATC's Veterans Affairs Office is available to help you make a smooth transition into a college program using your veterans' benefits. The Office can also help ensure that your GI Bill payments arrive in time to meet college expenses.
If you are a continuing recipient of the GI Bill at MATC and have registered for classes, you can apply for your Montgomery GI Bill Benefit by submitting the VA Educational Benefits Request Form. If you are submitting the benefit request form for the fall semester you will be certified for both fall and spring. Please note that students receiving Post 9/11- Chapter 33 benefits must submit a request form every semester. There is a separate summer benefit request form that must be submitted for summer, 2010 benefits. If you are a continuing recipient of the Wisconsin GI Bill Remission Tuition at MATC and have registered for classes, you can apply for your Wisconsin GI Bill Remission Tuition by submitting a Wisconsin GI Bill Remission Request Form.
Schedule Changes and Failed Courses:
You need to notify our office if your enrollment level changes after you have submitted your VA Educational Benefits Request Form so that we can adjust your certification when necessary. Remember, your monthly rate of pay is based on the number of credits you are enrolled in. When grades are posted, we review enrollment and grades to make sure that students completed the courses for which they were certified.
Other helpful links are:
Chapter 33 - Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008
Important updated information on this new Federal GI Bill, known as Chapter 33, or the Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, can be found on the VA website at: http://www.gibill.va.gov
This benefit begins August 1, 2009. Information on tuition rates by state, percentage of entitlement based on service, frequently asked questions, a calculator to determine monthly housing rates by zip code are now included on the VA website.
STEPS INVOLVED IN USING YOUR GI BILL
MONTGOMERY GI BILL
For new students:
- Submit application online (www.gibill.va.gov)
- Enroll in a MATC Associate or Diploma Program
- Register for classes
- Complete a MATC Veterans' Educational Benefits Request Form
- See your Wisconsin County Veterans Service Officer to review
- Any and all federal and state veterans benefits and services you might be eligible to receive in addition to your educational benefits.
http://www.wicvso.org
For transfer students:
- Complete a 22-1995
- Enroll in a MATC Associate or Diploma Program
- Register for classes
- Complete a MATC Veterans' Educational Benefits Request Form
For continuing students:
- Register for classes
- Submit a MATC Veterans' Educational Benefits Request Form
State of Wisconsin Veteran Benefit Programs
National Guard Tuition Grant reimbursement:
- Students no longer need to complete a pre-application.
- Students only need to complete the DMA Form 189 application.
- This application is due within 60 days of the semester end date.
- Remember, to allow the school at least two weeks prior to the due date to process and mail your application to Madison.
The form can be found by clicking on the following National Guard website link:
http://dma.wi.gov/devops/docview.asp?docid5841
Note: National Guard Members who receive the National Guard Tuition Grant reimbursement each semester for their tuition may be eligible to receive reimbursement for segregated fees through the Federal Tuition Assistance program. Contact your unit education office or view benefit information on-line at http://nationalguardbenefits.com/
Veterans Education Reimbursement Grant
A pre-application is required for the VetEd Grant, the deadline for submitting the pre-application is 180 days after the start of the semester. The deadline for submitting post-applications are due within 60 days after the end of the semester. Please allow the school at least two weeks prior to the 60 day deadline to process and submit the application.
You may find information regarding reimbursement requirements and the on-line pre-application and the post-application on the Vet Ed Website at:
https://services.dva.state.wi.us/WDVALogin.aspx
WI GI BILL (tuition fee remission)
- Information regarding the program eligibility requirements and forms can be found on the following website:
www.WisVets.com/WisGIBill
- Submit form WDVA 2029, along with the required documents to our school by the fourteenth calendar day of the semester.
- Submit form WDVA 2030 to the Wisconsin Dept of Veterans Affairs along with required documents.
- You may check the Status of your WI GI Bill on-line at:
https://services.dva.state.wi.us/WDVALogin.aspx
- Sign up for a login ID and password
- If this is your first time applying for State of Wisconsin Veterans Benefits you won't be able to your status until you are assigned a base number.
- After you are assigned a base number and login into the website and it states "WI GI Bill Eligiblity Approved:" it means you have been approved to receive the WI GI Bill Tuition Fee Remission.
After your application has been reviewed by the State of Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs in Madison, you and the school will be notified of approval or denial of this benefit.
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