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Amid new GI Bill woes, VA says fix is coming

Air Force Times

April 21, 2010

In Wednesday testimony before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, VA's top education official said an audit of the new veterans education program is under way to determine how many payment errors may have been made and how to fix them. Among the new snags for the troubled program: Living stipends for the spring term are all wrong, based on 2009 rather than 2010 military housing allowance rates. As a result, in July VA will need to figure out who was underpaid, who was overpaid, and what to do about it.

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