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Get Over $300,000 For College Education
It’s true. VA Chapter 31 Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment will pay up to $300,000 or more to retrain veterans that qualify for additional benefits beyond…
24 Hour Fitness and biometric data
Should 24-Hour Fitness have your Biometric Information? Riddle: What do the 1980′s, Karate Kid, your fingerprint, and 24 Hour Fitness have in common? Answer: Capitalism, testosterone……
Top Lies Veteran Readiness And Employment Counselors Tell Veterans
Many veterans fight with Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) to win benefits that are wrongly denied. Sometimes, it takes veterans years before we figure out…
Top 5 Individual Unemployability Misconceptions Veterans Need To Know
I recently talked with an evaluator for Total Disability Individual Unemployability (TDIU). The VA examiner, a friendly chap, had some confusion about what the Dept…
Does VA Voc Rehab pick your college?
The short answer is, “It depends.” They will pick it or at least push you in the direction of a public school. As in my…
Disabled Veterans Get Full Student Loan Discharge
Good news, disabled veterans might qualify for a full student loan forgiveness of federal loans. For many college students, student loans are a necessary evil…
VA Vocational Rehabilitation Stipend Rates
These rates have changed very little over the past ten years, possibly increasing only a couple percentage points. So, you can count on these numbers…
How to know if you may qualify for Chapter 31 Voc Rehab
Many disabled veterans are asking a lot of questions about how to know if they qualify for Chapter 31 Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E). Simply…
My First Voc Rehab Appointment
I decided to write a chronological summary of my time with “Voc Rehab.” Summary of Day 1: When meeting with the Chapter 31 Voc Rehab…
What must happen for Voc Rehab to call you “rehabilitated”
Here is the basic regulation that governs how your Voc Rehab Counselor will determine whether or not you are “done” with Voc Rehab. If these…
Voc Rehab: Counselors pushing vets despite not finding full-time work
The promise with Voc Rehab: Chapter 31 is that it will retrain disabled veterans into a vocation or profession, and the veteran will find substantive…
Use caution with online college selection
Few disabled veterans would argue that name brand recognition for colleges like Stanford and Harvard does not raise an eyebrow when reading a resume. Why?…