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Senate Committee Reported Incorrect Data on For-Profit Veterans' Education Benefits

Chronicle of Higher Education

November 3, 2011

News coverage of a report released in September by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, included incorrect numbers calculated by the committee. The panel announced its error on Thursday. Rather than tallying the one-year increase in veterans' education benefits, the committee mistakenly used two-year data. The change means that those colleges increased their benefits by 86 percent compared with the previous award year, not 159 percent, as the committee had previously reported.

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