I just had a quick question for you in case I forget to ask people later this week.
I’m active Army, been in three years..my wife is wanting to take online college courses, but is the Army still offering tuition assistance for spouses?
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It depends on your rank but the MyCAA program is available again. https://www.militaryonesource.com/MOS/FindInformation/Category/MilitarySpouseCareerAdvancementAccounts.aspx
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Me and my boyfriend are considering getting married but I only have a few classes left before I get my degree. How does the army go about paying for my tuition if we’re married and how soon can I use tge tuition assistance. We are planning to get married and may and classes start in may also.
Hi. My husband is Active Guard and going to school full time. He is enrolled as a full-time student in an online program through an accredited university working towards his bachelors degree. The approach taken with regards to his full-time course load is to take two (2) 8-week courses per “block”. For the online environment, two “blocks” are equivalent to one traditional semester. When his courses are taken back to back (& they usually are), all four courses are completed in a 16 week period (which is the equivalent to a traditional semester). The courses are all 3 credit hours, so when looking at it from a semester perspective, he is in fact enrolled in 12 hours per semester. Occassionaly, the course load overlaps resulting in a longer break between the next block – however, this is not common.
We were receiving benfits of $1426 per month for well over a year. Then we were told that he was overpaid and should have only received $846 per month. So they retro-adjusted for the overpayment and told us we owed them thousands of dollars.
We recieved his new award letter, indicating that he will be receiving the $846 for a specified time frame, and recieve the $1426 for the 2 weeks (prorated) that his “blocks” are overlapping.
When he called to speak to a “specialist”, they told him that the change in benefit was due to the fact that he would be enrolled full time for 2 weeks.
This is where I am confused. He IS enrolled full time…? Instead of taking 4 classes all at once over the span of 16 weeks, he is taking 2 classes at a time over the span of 8 weeks…. the end result is still the same. Twelve hours completed in a semester.
My husband refuses to call back to speak with somebody else, and has just simply accepted their explanation. I, however, am less convinced – and honestly think there is a miscommunication or misunderstanding with regards to the relationship between “blocks” and “semesters”.
Maybe I’m reading too much in between the lines, because I teach college classes both online and in the traditional classroom setting. Maybe I’m beating a dead horse, but I would like to get an honest, and well explained answer…. if one exist.
Thank you in advance to anyone who has some information/advice.