Veterans Affairs - Available Veterans Benefits

Post 911/Chapter 33

The Post 9/11 GI Bill provides financial support for education and housing to individuals with at least 90 days of aggregate service on or after September 11, 2001, or individuals discharged with a service-connected disability after 30 days. You must have received an honorable discharge to be eligible for the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

www.gibill.va.gov

Montgomery GI Bill

The Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty program provides up to 36 months of education benefits. These benefits may be used for degree and certificate programs, apprenticeship/on-the-job training and correspondence courses. Vocational flight training is approved from September 30, 1990. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances. Generally, benefits are payable for 10 years following your release from active duty.
For more information: http://www.gibill.va.gov/GI_Bill_Info/benefits.htm

Veterans Educational Assistance Program (VEAP)

VEAP is available if you first entered active duty between January 1, 1977 and June 30, 1985 and you elected to make contributions from your military pay to participate in this education benefit program.
For more information: http://www.gibill.va.gov/GI_Bill_Info/benefits.htm#VEAP

Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program (DEA)

The DEA program offers up to 45 months of education benefits. Spouses and children of veterans who were disabled or died of a service-related condition may be eligible.
For more information: http://www.gibill.va.gov/pamphlets/ch35/ch35_pamphlet_general.htm

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Service (VR&E)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) provides vocational rehabilitation services to veterans with service-connected disabilities, helping our injured  veterans with disabilities achieve a seamless transition from military service to successful rehabilitation to suitable employment after service to our Nation. For more information: http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/index.htm

State of Illinois Veteran Grant (IVG)

This program pays tuition and fees for either undergraduate study at any Illinois public college, university or community college for those veterans who were honorably discharged  with at least one year of full-time active duty.
For more information:  http://www.collegezone.com/studentzone/416_962.htm

Illinois National Guard (ING) Grant

The Illinois National Guard Grant pays tuition and fees at Illinois public colleges and community colleges for eligible members of the Illinois National Guard. The grant can be used for a maximum of the equivalent of eight semesters or 12 quarters.
For more information, visit: http://www.collegezone.com/studentzone/416_964.htm

MIA-POW Scholarship

Dependents of a person who was an Illinois resident at the time he or she entered active duty and has been declared to be a prisoner of war, missing in action, or dead as a result of a service-connected disability, or disabled with a 100 percent disability as the result of a service-connected cause may be eligible to receive the MIA/POW Scholarship. For more information:

http://www.collegezone.com/studentzone/416_1498.htm

http://www.veterans.illinois.gov/benefits.htm