ACU official briefs Dallas commission on education benefits, highlights new Supreme Court eligibility window

Vanessa Wise, a strategic partnership executive for military and government organizations at Abilene Christian University, told the Dallas Veterans Commission that a range of federal and Texas education benefits remain available to veterans, service members and their dependents and that a recent Supreme Court decision can restore an additional 12 months of GI Bill benefits for some people who reenlisted.

"I would sum this one up as the best one — the Post-9/11 GI Bill — because it covers tuition, books and a housing allowance for every qualified service member who uses it," Wise said, describing differences among the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the Montgomery GI Bill and Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E, chapter 31). She told the commission that the Post-9/11 program often covers public tuition in full and that private-school users may face annual…