Saturday, January 9, 2010

Our Delima in Limbo Land

I havent posted in a while and what I have to post isnt the best of news. We are having issues with Zech going to school like he wanted. We are as informed about the GI Bill as humanly possible. The problem with the whole situation is from the school. UTI, since its not a university or college, not offering a DEGREE (its a tech school), has the choice as to whether or not they want to accept the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Since Zech has been enrolled last January, he has mentioned it to his student advisor and 2 different financial aid/VA reps there at the school that he was going to apply for the Post 9/11 GI Bill. NONE of them said ANYTHING about UTI not accepting that specific GI Bill. Well shortly after he applied for it, because everyone was pushing it so hard, he called his fin aid rep to let her know he had done it and then all of a sudden she remembered they didnt accept it! OOOPS!! stupid ass. well when that happened we were told that it was going to be OK because its also up to the school as to how they are going to submit their end of the paperwork. They said they were going to submit it as the Montgomery so that Zech would receive funds. We then asked if there was ANYTHING else that needed to be done on our part and we were told no. So we assumed it was taken care of. Well yesterday, 2 weeks before he is supposed to start classes, we popped in to turn in some last minute paperwork Zech had and we thought we would ask how the GI Bill money would be received. Thats when they told us another OOPS. If the VA has already approved Zech for the Post 9/11 GI Bill, the rep there at UTI said that we would not receive funds because UTI would deny it since it was not the GI Bill they accepted. If the VA hasnt approved it yet (*crosses fingers*) we will POSSIBLY be able to transfer his paperwork to the Montgomery GI Bill. Even then we would start the waiting game all over again to get it approved and processed. From there we would be able to go to school but wouldnt see funds immediately because the VA is 12 weeks behind. We would have to go to the regional VA office in Houston and get an advancement just so we can live. Its stressful and Ive cried too much over it already. If this doesnt work out in our favor, Zech and I have decided we will most likely move back home to Camp Wood until we can figure out something else. We discussed going back active duty Army, but right now thats just not something we want to deal with. He would deploy again this summer if that was the choice we made. We will keep everyone posted. Please pray for us that the Post 9/11 hasnt been approved and that they will let us transfer his paperwork!

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