VA

Personal Responsibilities


Personal responsibilities for Veterans Affairs educational benefits recipients:


  • Notify the VAO whenever you want to be certified for VA Educational Benefits.
  • You must pursue the course work in your curriculum/major. The VA will not pay for courses not in your curriculum.
  • An Accuplacer placement test is required to justify taking any developmental course.
  • Report changes in your enrollment status to the VAO (drops, adds, withdrawals program changes and etc.).
  • You are responsible for over payments resulting from a change to a lower status (decrease in credit hours).
  • The VA will not pay for non-punitive grades – W, IP, I, N.
  • You will not be certified for repeating courses with a passing grade (D and above).
  • You must maintain satisfactory academic progress. 
  • Submit all papers to the VAO before the end of the add/drop period in order to allow for possible schedule adjustment.