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Veterans Information

Students seeking information concerning veteran's benefits should meet with the Assistant Registrar in Ginger Hall 201B.

Eligibility for veterans benefits. You are eligible for benefits if your military service places you in one of the following chapters:

  • Chapter 30 - New GI Bill- Active duty starting from June 30, 1985.
  • Chapter 31 - Vocational rehabilitation benefits for disabled veterans.
  • Chapter 32 - VEAP provides benefits through the contributory education assistance program.
  • Chapter 34 - Old GI Bill.
  • Chapter 35 - Education assistance benefits for dependents and survivors of certain veterans who have serious disabilities as the result of their service, or who have died of a service connected cause.
  • Chapter 1606 - Provides benefits to students participating in the National Guard and/or Reserves.
  • Chapter 903 - Special bill.
  • Chapter 1607 - Educational assistance for reserve component members supporting contingency operations and certain other operations.

Applying for veterans education benefits. Once you are advance-registered or registered as a student at the university -
  1. File an application for benefits. Apply on-line at www.gibill.va.gov.  Chapter 35 will file VA form 22-5490, Application for Survivors' and Dependents Educational Assistance.   Chapters 30, 32, 903, 1606, and 1607 will file VA form 22-1990, Application for Educational Benefits.  The signature page must be mailed to the St. Louis, MO Regional Office (PO Box 66830, St. Louis, MO 63166-6830).  You should also mail a copy of your DD 214 or DD Form 2384 (Notice of Basic Eligibility) and a copy of your contract if you are eligible for the college fund (kicker).  Students applying for chapter 31 will need to contact the Vocational Rehabilitation representative for authorization to receive benefits. 
  2. Dependents do not file a DD 214 but you must have your father's file numbers to apply for benefits.
  3. Once you have advance-registered or registered as a student at the university and filed an application for your VA education benefits, you must contact the Assistant Registrar for an enrollment certification to be submitted to the regional office.
Certification of benefits.
  1. Veterans are certified only for those classes that are required for their degree program. It is your responsibility to take at least 12 hours of degree required courses to qualify for full-time benefits. If you take less than 12 hours, you should make sure that all courses are required in your program. Audited courses and correspondence courses do not count as part of your course load in qualifying for benefits.
  2. If you change from full-time to part-time status you must file this change with the Assistant Registrar in charge of VA certification.
  3. Veteran Education Benefits are certified on a semester basis. Students are paid for the Christmas break after certification of the spring semester has been verified.
Prior Credit and filing a checksheet. During the first semester a veteran student enrolls at MSU, he/she must file a program checksheet with the Registrar's Office declaring a particular degree intent. The university will not certify students for VA benefits unless this program intent is on file.

Verification of enrollment. Everyone receiving MGIB - Active Duty benefits, as well as those in the Selected Reserve, must verify his or her enrollment each month to receive payment for that month. Your enrollment can be verified on the last calendar day of the month using the Web Automated Verification of Enrollment (WAVE) at https://www.gibill.va.gov/wave or by calling the toll-free Interactive Voice Response (IVR) telephone line at 1-877-823-2378.