Posted on Feb 21, 2018
How do you transfer education benefits to a spouse when the service member has limited time left on their contract?
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Please help!!!! My husband is attempting to transfer his education benefits to me; however, teb denied transfer because he doesn't have enough time left on his contract. He contacted his s1 about extending. S1 is saying that he needs the letter about transfer being denied. We did not receive one. He showed him on milconnect the denial. After reaching out to the army rep for teb per website he was told that he needed to fill a different form out but we can not find this form. I want to finish my RN and give back to my service members at the va hospital or base hospital but we need help getting the education to transfer. Any advice?????
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The S1 should not be assisting the Soldier for the Transfer of Education Benefits (TEB). Please have the Soldier speak with the Battalion Career Counselor for further assistance. The letter denying the Soldier for TEB will be in his military email. It will deny you all TEB because he will have to meet an Service Remainder Requirement (SRR). The Battalion Career Counselor will be able to answer any additional questions for extending/reenlisting for the TEB.
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Oh and calling the General will get me an education on this. I need to get him on Rally Point. I am obviously not calling him to catch up until tomorrow. I think a Colonel will understand that sir.
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SSG Keith Amacher
I do have a relationship, he granted me CSM status and said if his ass went to war I was going to be beside him. His Brother was the commanding General of Georgia National Guard... Ft McPherson Atlanta where there are more stars than stripes.
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I have a friend sir that is retired AG of Georgia National Guard and a Ranger and Pilot who teaches at Georgia Tech ROTC... I will check with him. My family had me contact him for help when we were trying to get my dying cousin back from Iraq who was working DOD communications. I don't understand these contracts it was simple in my time...
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Nicole Willams, call the [login to see] or go out to the VA web site, and there is a PDF that your husband needs to fill out. If thats does not work, he can get from his Chain of Command, to assist with this process, once its completed, it normally takes 60 to 90 days, make sure that if you send it by mail, you use Delivery receipt so that someone has to sign for it. That way if your LOCAL Regional Office say they lost it or did not get it, you will have a copy of whom signed it at the PO.
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He is in active reserves and he understands he has to extend his contract which is no big deal because the plan is to do indefinite on the new contract since he will be receiving his 20 yr letter this year
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SSG Eddye Royal
Nicole Willams, call the [login to see] or go out to the VA web site, and there is a PDF that your husband needs to fill out. If thats does not work, he can get from his Chain of Command, to assist with this process, once its completed, it normally takes 60 to 90 days, make sure that if you send it by mail, you use Delivery receipt so that someone has to sign for it. That way if your LOCAL Regional Office say they lost it or did not get it, you will have a copy of whom signed it at the PO.
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SFC Andrew Miller
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This is the email address for Army reservists looking to transfer Post 9/11 issues and have eligibility or transferability questions. You hadn't posted about him approaching 20 years and looking at going indefinite. Have your husband contact the career counselor as suggested by someone else.
This is the email address for Army reservists looking to transfer Post 9/11 issues and have eligibility or transferability questions. You hadn't posted about him approaching 20 years and looking at going indefinite. Have your husband contact the career counselor as suggested by someone else.
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I'm IAVA's Legislative Director and we have been neck deep in this since the Post-9/11 GI Bill was enacted. If one wants to transfer his/her P911 GIB to a spouse or children, one has to serve 4 more years after one elects to transfer online with the VA. You can't just transfer it on your way out. There have been attempts over the last two years by Congress to cut in half the BAH paid to children using the transferred GI Bill and to charge $2,400 to every service member for P911 GIB eligibility. Those were defeated. All need to pay attention and engage.
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SSG Eddye Royal
BTW CDR Tom Porter, I have helped others and yes it is a process depending on which GI bill, the Soldier(s) is trying to use.. I hope you do not mind me using you as a reference, I as I’m on LinkedIn that I help Veterans getting out of military finding jobs.
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MSG Dan Castaneda
Absolutely correct sir. I personally think its BS that the Army would make me do 4 more years after I transferred my GI Bill to my kids. I was unaware of the commitment, and didn't transfer until 21 years of service. I missed the memo. There should be a thresh hole of 15 years. Once you hit 15 years you are considered a career Soldier. The commitment should be less, especially if having more than 20 years of active duty service. So I'm trying to do my time, but when I'm done, I'm done. If I don't make the four years, then I guess I'll use it on something else like learning a trade just to not let it got to waste, but in all actuality wasting it.
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I hear you. There definitely appears to be varying levels of how each service branch communicates these requirements. I heard it repeatedly around the time the benefit passed. The transferability and additional four year requirement was added as a re-enlistment incentive at a time when we were ramped up at 100k BOG in Iraq and Afg.
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the transfer of education benefits accepts an additional active duty service obligation. I got an ADSO at 17 years of service of 3 more years for the "privilege" of transfer benefits to my family. Which took me to twenty.
Nicole Williams what is the different form number? Is it a VA form? All the VA forms are on the VA website. Your service member will need to enable his VA login. Initial login by CAC is possible, but you lose that when you separate. You yourself can get a login and leverage the benefits you qualify for. I transferred most of it to my wife when I retired because I built the wedge in the system in 2011 as I described above. We had to fill out VA forms for her to get the tuition and BAH assistance. I did everything via the web site without talking to a human being. My wife had to call the VA once to get the BAH started.
Please review the eligibility requirements. This link has points of contact to assist by branch. https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/post911_transfer.asp
Nicole Williams what is the different form number? Is it a VA form? All the VA forms are on the VA website. Your service member will need to enable his VA login. Initial login by CAC is possible, but you lose that when you separate. You yourself can get a login and leverage the benefits you qualify for. I transferred most of it to my wife when I retired because I built the wedge in the system in 2011 as I described above. We had to fill out VA forms for her to get the tuition and BAH assistance. I did everything via the web site without talking to a human being. My wife had to call the VA once to get the BAH started.
Please review the eligibility requirements. This link has points of contact to assist by branch. https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/post911_transfer.asp
Transfer Post-9/11 GI Bill to Spouse and Dependents - Education and Training
The GI Bill provides education benefits to veterans and their dependents.
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I could have sworn that transfer of education benefits could be handled by the VA once he got out. Why does it have to be down right now?
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I just talked to the General and he is going to call me back in a few minutes to discuss your problem.
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