If you’re using the GI Bill and looking for a way to earn extra money without touching your entitlement months, the VA Work-Study Allowance Program is one of the most overlooked benefits available to students using VA education benefits — tax-free pay, flexible campus or VA-related jobs, and it doesn’t reduce your monthly GI Bill…
If you’re in the Selected Reserve or National Guard, you may be eligible for two very different education benefits — and picking the wrong one can cost you thousands of dollars over the life of your degree. Chapter 1606 and Post-9/11 GI Bill aren’t interchangeable versions of the same benefit; they pay completely differently, and…
Texas veterans get a benefit most other states don’t offer at all: up to 150 credit hours of tuition exemption at Texas public colleges and universities, and it can pass down to your children. The Hazlewood Act is often misunderstood as a GI Bill substitute, but it actually works alongside your federal education benefits, filling…
Texas offers some of the most generous property tax relief for disabled veterans in the country — up to a complete exemption on your home’s appraised value. But the rules are tiered, the paperwork has a hard deadline, and the difference between a partial exemption and a full one comes down to a specific rating…
If you’re facing a medical separation or retirement, you’re not going through one disability process — you’re going through two that happen to run on the same track. The Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) combines DoD’s fitness-for-duty determination with the VA’s disability rating into a single process, and understanding how the two halves actually interact…
Most veterans focus entirely on debt-to-income ratio when they’re worried about VA loan approval — but residual income is often the number that actually decides it. It’s the dollar amount left o
When a veteran dies, VA burial benefits can help cover funeral and burial costs — but the amount depends entirely on whether the death was service-connected, and the deadline to file can be as s
Most states have stopped taxing military retirement pay entirely, and the trend has only accelerated in the last few years. As of 2026, only two places in the country — California and Washington
A bill moving through the Senate right now would let veterans awarded the Purple Heart after they’ve already left the service transfer their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits to a spouse or child — som
If a Chapter 35 check has been covering your child’s high school tuition, tutoring, or GED prep, that coverage is ending. Effective August 1, 2026, VA is discontinuing Dependents’ Educational Assistan