New Suggested Search for Veterans Educational Benefits

On this Memorial Day weekend, the OFR salutes our veterans, and thanks them for their service and sacrifice. We are adding a new Suggested Search for “Veterans Educational Benefits” to help our vets and their families find Federal Register documents that govern the educational benefits due to those who have served their country in the United States military. We also have Suggested Searches for “Veterans Employment & Training” and “Veterans Disability Ratings & Claims.”

Officially known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, the “G.I. Bill of Rights” unanimously passed both houses of Congress in the spring of 1944. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it into law on June 22, 1944, just days after the D-day invasion of Normandy.

To view the signed original of the G.I. Bill (Public Law 78-346, 58 Stat. 284m), visit the Our Documents web site, sponsored by the National Archives and several affiliated organizations. Our Documents identifies the G.I. Bill as one of the 100 documents that helped shape the national character, reflect our diversity, our unity, and our commitment as a nation to continue our work toward forming “a more perfect union.”

The original 1944 law has been amended to include other programs that assist veterans of subsequent wars as well as peacetime service. The current law includes elements of the Montgomery G.I. Bill, the Post-9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2010, and the Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance Program. The Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and several other agencies administer educational programs for veterans. Current regulations are found in title 38 of the Code of Federal Regulations.