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1. There’s no longer an expiration date. |
Previously, veterans had to use their Post-9/11 GI Bill within 15 years of their last 90-day period of active-duty service. That requirement is going away. |
This portion of the law will apply to anyone who left the military after January 1, 2013. It will also apply to spouses who are receiving education benefits through the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship for family members of service members who have been killed in the line of duty since Sept. 10, 2001. |
2. Purple Heart recipients will get more benefits. |
The new GI Bill allows anyone who has received a Purple Heart on or after Sept. 11, 2001 to receive 100 percent of the benefits offered under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which includes coverage of tuition costs at a public school’s in-state rate for 36 months and stipends for textbooks and housing. |
Previously, Purple Heart recipients were beholden to the same time-in-service qualifications for the GI Bill as other service members. This meant that Purple Heart recipients without a service-connected disability who did not reach 36 months of service were only eligible for a percentage of the benefits and not the ful... |
Aleks Morosky, national legislative director for Military Order of the Purple Heart, said there have been 52,598 Purple Heart recipients who were wounded in action during post-9/11 conflicts, though it’s unclear how many would immediately benefit from this provision. An estimated 660 Purple Heart recipients each year o... |
This provision will go into effect in August 2018. |
3. More people are eligible for Yellow Ribbon. |
The Yellow Ribbon Program is a voluntary agreement between schools and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to split school costs not covered by the GI Bill, reducing or eliminating the amount students must pay themselves. |
The Forever GI Bill will expand eligibility for this program to surviving spouses or children of service members in August 2018 and active-duty service members in August 2022. |
Previously, only veterans eligible for GI Bill benefits at the 100 percent level or their dependents using transferred benefits were eligible for Yellow Ribbon. |
4. There’s some extra money — and time — for STEM degrees. |
Some college degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields take longer than four years to complete, which is why the new law authorizes an additional school year of GI Bill funds on a first-come, first-serve basis. |
Scholarships of up to $30,000 will be available for eligible GI Bill users starting in August 2019. Only veterans or surviving family members of deceased service members are eligible for this scholarship — not dependents using transferred benefits. |
5. Vets hurt by school shutdowns will get benefits back. |
A provision in the new GI Bill that will restore benefits to victims of school closures has been a long-time coming for the staff at Student Veterans of America. |
This provision will retroactively apply to GI Bill users whose schools have abruptly closed since January 2015, for credits earned at the shuttered institutions that did not transfer to new schools. This will include the thousands of veteran students who were attending the national for-profit chains Corinthian Colleges... |
6. The VA will measure eligibility for benefits differently. |
Starting August 2020, this bill changes the way the VA uses time in service to calculate eligibility. |
Previously, service members with at least 90 days but less than six months of active-duty service would be eligible for up to 40 percent of the full GI Bill benefits. Under new regulations, the same 90-days-to-six-month window is equal to 50 percent of benefits. Service members with at least six months and less than 18... |
This change will tend to benefit reservists more due to the nature of their service, according to a spokeswoman for the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. |
7. Reservists can count more of their service toward eligibility. |
Starting next August, members of the National Guard and Reserve will be able to count time spent receiving medical care or recovering from injuries received while on active duty toward their GI Bill eligibility. This will apply to all who have been activated since 9/11. |
The Forever GI Bill also allows individuals who lost their Reserve Educational Assistance Program when the program ended in 2015 to credit their previous service toward their eligibility for the Post-9/11 GI Bill. |
8. Housing stipends will decrease slightly. |
The government will pay for the expansions represented in the Forever GI Bill through a 1 percent decrease in housing stipends over the next five years. This will bring veterans’ housing stipends on par with what active-duty service members receive at the E-5 with dependents rate. (Veterans on the GI Bill currently rec... |
“On a month-to-month basis, they would never see less money,” said SVA’s Hubbard, explaining that the 1 percent reduction will come off of the total the VA would have spent over five years. |
Starting in August 2018, housing stipends previously calculated based on the ZIP code of a student’s school will be based on where a student takes the most classes. |
Also in August 2018, reservists will continue to receive their monthly housing allowance under the GI Bill on a prorated rate for any month during which they are activated, preventing them from losing a whole month’s worth of funds. |
9. Benefits can get transferred after death. |
A provision of the new GI Bill offers more flexibility with the transfer and distribution of benefits in case of death. |
If a dependent who received transferred benefits dies before using all of the benefits, this provision gives the service member or veteran the ability to transfer remaining benefits to another dependent. This will go into effect August 2018 and apply to all deaths since 2009. |
This provision also gives dependents of deceased service members the ability to make changes to their deceased loved one’s transferred benefits. |
Ashlynne Haycock, senior coordinator of education support services for the nonprofit Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, explains that currently, only a service member has the authority to make changes to the benefits they’d like to transfer. So, if a service member dies after transferring 35 months of benefits t... |
10. Surviving family members will get more money, but less time. |
Surviving spouses and children of service members who are receiving benefits through the Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance Program will see their monthly education stipend increase by $200. |
There’s a downside, however. Though the same program has previously provided 45 months of education benefits, that will decrease to 36 months in August 2018 to bring it in line with the provisions of the GI Bill. |
11. School certifying officials must be trained. |
Individuals who certify veteran student enrollment at schools with more than 20 veteran students will be required to undergo training. Previously, training was not mandatory. |
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On paper, President Obama's White House Tumblr social with David Karp was about promoting Democrats' student loan proposals. But really, it was about proving to Tumblr users that Obama is hip. |
On paper, President Obama's White House Tumblr social with David Karp was about promoting Democrats' student loan proposals. But really, it was about proving to Tumblr users that Obama is hip. We're not sure he succeeded. |
"You're laughing because you think, what does he know about Tumblr?" Obama said on Monday, ahead of his talk with Karp. "But you will recall that I have two teenage daughters — so I am hip to all these things." At the White House event, the president brought up his party's plans to reduce student loan payments and idea... |
At times Obama came off as that dad who wants you to think he's cool but isn't really. Even though he's the President of the United States of America he tried to come off as a slacker student. "I was a humanities major," he said. "I was pretty good in math until I got to high school, and then I misspent those years.” H... |
"So, this just happened backstage," the White House tumblr posted. It really shouldn't have. |
Before reading haikumoon's question (about feeling pressured into college before knowing what major you want) Karp noted that not everyone submitted their real name. Obama said it was a cool username, and a small fandom was born. |
And that led to a lot of new followers. |
One Tumblr user submitted a question about school shootings that was already outdated, given today's shooting. “The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people," Obama said, "and yet, we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyplace else.” He also said that most... |
At the end of the event, Karp told the audience to wish Sasha a happy 13th birthday, and joked that she's finally old enough to use Tumblr. "So she wasn’t before then?" he said. |
The Datsun 200SX for '79 didn't have TURRRRRBO power yet, but it packed a not-too-shabby-for-its-time 92 fuel-injected horsepower. Weighing just 2,268 pounds (about 650 pounds less than the '08 Sentra), the 200SX didn't feel particularly Malaise-y, and it even came with a Sky Roof! It wanted you to open it up and watch... |
What's The Magic Word For '84? TURRRRRBO! |
The greatest obstacle to a major education overhaul is the school boards. |
Parent Celine Cooper and teacher Robert Green are calling on the Quebec government to invest more into our public education system. Cooper is calling for the government to work with teachers, while Green calls for increased parental support. |
But where are the school boards? Do they support the parents’ and teachers’ wishes? The answer is becoming increasingly apparent. |
Consider the Quebec government’s plan to restructure the entire school system, which would, in all probability, put more money into our schools. The greatest obstacle to this major education overhaul is the school boards. |
Currently, the English boards are working on a launch strategy of a brief to present to Education Minister François Blais, hoping the minister will reconsider his plans to abolish school board elections, which, incidentally, have absolutely nothing to do with the classroom. |
Moreover, we have not heard a peep from the boards in support of teachers and parents concerning their worries about class size and special-needs students. |
The majority Liberal government should get on with it: dismiss school boards’ wants and pay attention to the real needs of Quebec’s classrooms. |
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of delay, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn now has a sentencing date. |
A federal judge on Wednesday set Flynn’s sentencing for Dec. 18, more than a year after the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia during the presidential transition. |
The move comes just days after prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller said they were ready for Flynn’s case to conclude. Flynn, a senior Trump campaign surrogate who gave a memorable speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention calling for the jailing of Democrat Hillary Clinton, has been a key coo... |
But prosecutors have yet to reveal the extent of his cooperation, and according to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order, the public won’t see any details until after the midterm election. |
Prosecutors won’t be required to file a sentencing memorandum — a document which usually contains the government’s view on the value of the cooperation — until Dec. 4. |
When he pleaded guilty last year, Flynn admitted to lying during an FBI interview about the content of his conversations with Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. |
According to his plea , Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions with Kislyak on Trump’s behalf during the presidential transition and said members of the president’s inner circle were aware of, and in some cases directing, his efforts. Flynn had urged Kislyak not to respond to sanctions imposed by the Obama administration in re... |
When confronted by FBI agents about the conversations, court papers say Flynn made “material false statements and omissions”, which impeded what was then an FBI counterintelligence investigation. That probe was later taken over by Mueller, who has brought indictments against Russians that detail a broad campaign to att... |
Flynn’s interview occurred in January 2017, shortly after he took his post as national security adviser in the Trump White House. He was forced to resign in February 2017. The White House said he was fired for misleading Vice President Mike Pence and other senior officials about the content of his conversations with Ki... |
Estée Lauder co-founded her famous brand in 1946 with four simple skin products. For more than a decade, the company grew steadily but undramatically. The 1960s were different. The company went international in 1960, opening at Harrods in London, and expanded briskly. By 1970, there were 13 more international locations... |
Over the years the Estée Lauder Cos. continued growing through acquisition and creation of brands. Estée herself remained active in the company until her complete retirement in 1994. The following year Estée Lauder went public. Despite Lauder's death in 2004, the Lauder family maintains a strong presence in the company... |
If retailers want to win plaudits from customers during the upcoming holiday season, they need to deliver more than low prices and good value. They must also to make the shopping process and experience “smooth and easy,” according to a survey conducted by Deloitte Insights. |
The annual survey, conducted ahead of the unofficial start of the shopping season in the US which kicks off on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, found that over 60 percent of shoppers prefer online channels. |
Mobile applications are one of the fastest growing software categories for retailers. |
With online shopping cart abandonment rates hovering at about 70-80 percent, retail CIO’s understand that intelligent technologies will help deliver great experiences to consumers, which will translate to increased profits — and are investing accordingly. |
At the recent SAP Customer Experience Live event, technology prototypes demonstrated how technology helps deliver what consumers want while showing retailers how to deliver it. Whether shopping for real estate or the latest fashion, a new customer experience has the ability to delight consumers, while protecting their ... |
Mobile applications are one of the fastest growing software categories for retailers, and the Fashion Labs prototype takes mobile shopping up a notch. If someone sees a look they love on Instagram worn by their favorite celebrity, the solution lets them use their mobile phone to upload a picture of the outfit to their ... |
“With context-driven services, we can build a profile, even of an anonymous user, to see what they click on and spend time on," said Georg Kreimer, Head of Customer Experience Labs at SAP. "So when they do register, you can tailor what you send them.” Depending on what shoppers look at, recommendations will change over... |
The solution is optimized for use on mobile devices, so theoretically, someone could snap a photo of an outfit they like on the street, upload it and order it from their smart phone almost instantly. |
Consumers’ journey from browsing to buying is generally includes a hybrid of online and in-person experiences. Purchasing real estate is no exception. SAP’s digital real estate assistant uses digital twin, conversational AI and blockchain technologies to make sure that the move from virtual to real-world shopping is fr... |
It works like this: Using a digital twin (a computer-generated representation of a physical asset), customers can virtually tour an apartment online. While “visiting” the apartment, people can ask questions or book an appointment to see it – all these requests go to a smart assistant that uses conversational AI. People... |
All data from those conversations is stored securely in the blockchain (with shoppers’ permission), to be accessed and assessed by the sales team. This frees up sales representatives from doing tactical, logistical work and lets them focus on customers that are further along in buying process, armed with information to... |
The more companies understand exactly who their consumers are, the better they can serve them. Consumers want that level of service but also want assurances their data is protected. SAP Customer Experience Labs created a prototype named VIVO to help companies walk this fine line. VIVO allows people to create a trusted,... |
“The goal is to create a trusted identity that people can use for everything, including their health, financial and legal exchanges,” said Kreimer. |
All of this is done with permission and customers can opt out at any point. With authorized access to fitness and health data, the company can put together customized coaching offers for users. |
With innovation like this afoot, this holiday season will be an exciting one for shoppers. |
Bali, Indonesia (CNN) -- Learning Shakespeare under a thatched roof in a building made almost entirely from bamboo. The Green School in Bali, Indonesia, is like no other. |
The idea came to its founder John Hardy after his wife took him to see the Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth." |
Hardy -- who retired from running a successful jewelry business in 2007 -- was horrified by what he saw on screen and how climate change might affect his four children. So, he resolved to dedicate the rest of his life to do whatever he could to make their lot better, he says. |
At the Green School, students from nursery to eighth grade get, what Hardy calls, "a holistic education" -- well rounded, with a special emphasis on the environment. |
"The whole idea of sustainability and holism, which this school is based on, is that you don't dig everything up and spend it...and live inside your environmental means..." Hardy says. |
His goal is to decrease the school's carbon footprint even further, which means growing organic vegetables in the garden and using waste from livestock and turning it into biogas for cooking. |
Power is generated with the use of this hydroelectric vortex, and soon solar panels will be installed, taking the school completely off the grid. |
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