Veterans Affairs
Our Veterans Affairs Office proudly serves our Veteran Students, their spouses, and dependents.
Our doors are open daily to assist with completing forms, certification, registration, resources, and veteran benefits. After applying for admissions, you must also apply for your GI Bill® Education Benefits. If you have not yet done so, directions can be found below.
Applying to use your GI Bill® benefits for the first time?
- Complete VA’s form: Application for Benefits - 22-1990 or 28-1900.
- Go to gov. Scroll down and click on the green “How do I apply?” tab. Answer the questions and click “Apply now.”
- Applications can take up to 4 weeks to process. Plan accordingly.
- When you receive your eligibility paperwork (Certificate of Eligibility or Notice of Basic Eligibility), provide WCCCD with copies.
- Request all previous higher learning institutions' transcripts and your military transcript be sent to the VA office.
- Make sure the program you are following is a VA Approved Program [link to our program list]
- Meet with an academic advisor
- Register for classes that are required in your VA Approved Program
- Submit WCCCD’s Request for GI Bill® Certification form
- Returning students who have previously used VA benefits are only required to complete the Continued Enrollment Certification form and a copy of your student detailed schedule.
Veterans Educational Benefits
The Montgomery GI Bill program provides up to 36 months of benefits to eligible individuals who entered military service on or after July 1, 1985, who had their basic military pay reduced by $100.00 per month for the first 12 months of their service and received a discharge specified as "HONORABLE" are eligible.
A veteran of WWI or thereafter who has a service-connected disability that entitles him/her to DVA disability compensation and who needs vocational rehabilitation because the disability creates an unemployable handicap may be eligible for Chapter 31 benefits.
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.
For the first time in history, service members enrolled in the Post 9/11 GI Bill program will be able to transfer unused educational benefits to their spouses or children starting Aug. 1, 2009. Post 9/11 GI Bill Benefits may also be transferred through the new Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship. The scholarship expands eligibility under the Post-9/11 GI Bill to include children of an active duty service member in the Armed Forces who dies in the line of duty. More detailed provisions of the Fry Scholarship.
Sons, daughters, and spouses of a veteran who dies on active duty, was released from active duty due to a service connected disability, permanently and totally disabled, MIA, POW, or detained by a foreign government while on or in the line of duty, may be eligible for benefits. Generally, the eligibility period for sons and daughters is between the ages of 18 and 26 years of age. A spouse may use educational benefits during a 10 year period after eligibility is found. A surviving spouse may use those benefits during a 10 year period after the veterans death or 10 years after the DVA determines the veterans death was caused by a service connected disability, provided the surviving spouse does not marry.
Individuals who have agreed to serve six years in the selected reserve, on or after July 1,1985, re-enlisted or extended an enlistment for a period of at least six years may be eligible. Note: Active duty personnel are reimbursed for tuition and fees only, but are accessed entitlements charges at the rate of attend.
