Guard now covers tuition at any state school

A invoice handed by the Vermont legislature in early Could will give Vermont Nationwide Guard households an elevated price range for faculty tuition. 

Vermont Nationwide Guard members and their spouses and dependents can now get a bachelor’s diploma absolutely lined in any respect state colleges together with any Vermont State Faculty establishment or College of Vermont faculty. Earlier advantages solely paid for $11,592 of tuition a 12 months, which fell wanting some state college tuition charges, together with UVM’s.

The Guard will now pay as much as $16,392 a 12 months for tuition, which will also be used for a second bachelor’s diploma or a grasp’s diploma. If Guard members want to attend a personal school in Vermont, the Guard will cowl tuition as much as the in-state fee for undergraduate college students at UVM.

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Spouses and dependents didn’t obtain school advantages earlier than the the brand new invoice. Their tuition can be lined as quickly as they turn into Vermont residents and it’ll stay lined so long as the partner or dependent keep in Vermont, even when their member of the family within the Guard is moved for service duties.

“We actually recognize the assist the legislature has proven with the passage of those tuition advantages,” mentioned Maj. Gen. Greg Knight, Vermont Nationwide Guard adjutant common in a current press launch. “The brand new advantages will set us aside from what all different states within the area provide and can enable us to develop a extra educated {and professional} work drive.”

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