Veteran Students: Report Status Changes Electronically Soon
Published Date: 2/20/2025
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Summary
If you're a veteran student using VA education benefits, you need to tell the VA when your student status changes. The VA is updating how schools report this info, moving to a faster, mostly electronic system to avoid payment mistakes. You’ve got 30 days to share your thoughts on these changes, but no extra costs or hassles are expected.
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Report student-status changes to VA
If you are a veteran student using VA education benefits, you need to tell the VA when your student status changes so the VA can increase, decrease, or terminate your benefits and set the effective date of the change. The VA says without this information it might underpay or overpay benefits; the agency estimates 792,173 respondents and an average burden of 10 minutes per response.
Schools submit updates electronically
Schools will submit student-status information to VA using the electronic portal Enrollment Manager, which replaced the prior VA Online Certification of Enrollment (VA-ONCE). The notice states 95% of enrollment certifications are now submitted electronically and that information technology is being used to reduce burden; the VA estimates total annual burden at 132,028 hours.
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