Education benefit transfers may wait until fall

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Education benefit transfers may wait until fall
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, February 15, 2008

WASHINGTON — Even with a new push to let troops transfer their education benefits to family members, defense officials don’t expect to have any programs ready for college classes this fall.

Pentagon planners are expected to unveil proposals in the next few weeks which would allow servicemembers who can’t use their college tuition credits to give them to spouses or dependent children.

The idea, already part of several bills under consideration before Congress, was one of several military-family-friendly proposals touted alongside the fiscal 2009 defense budget and mentioned by President Bush in the last State of the Union address.

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington said officials hope to have the program in place and passed by Congress by the start of fiscal 2009 on Oct. 1.

“However, we don’t know the final form that the legislation will take,” he said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52504



uhc comment: Six days ago -->

Pentagon starts new benefits push
House votes for more family education benefits

I wonder if this is tied into the $735,700,000,000 2009 'defence' budget.