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Find out how to use GI Bill benefits to advance your education and training. You can use your GI Bill benefits in many ways, including paying for college or graduate tuition, funding your training for a specific trade or job or to start your own business, paying for fees to take licensing tests, and more.
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How to use your GI Bill benefits

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Find out how to use your GI Bill benefits to advance your education and training. Learn how to use your benefits to earn a degree, train for a specific trade, or work toward other career goals.

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Work toward a degree
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Undergraduate and graduate degrees
Help paying for tuition, books, and housing at an institution of higher learning (like a 4-year university, community college, or graduate school)
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Foreign programs
Funding for tuition and housing at a school located outside the U.S.
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Tuition Assistance Top-Up
Additional funds to help pay for school if your tuition costs more than what's covered by the active-duty Tuition Assistance program
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Tutorial assistance
Help paying for a tutor if you’re struggling with coursework
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Train for a specific career, trade, or industry
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Get paid back for test fees
Reimbursement for the cost of tests to become a licensed or certified professional, or to apply for college or a training course
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Accelerated payments for high-technology programs
A lump-sum payment to help cover the cost of courses in high-tech degree or non-degree programs
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Non-college degree programs
Funding for specific training programs (like HVAC repair, truck driving, or EMT training)
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VET TEC program
A program that connects you to a high-tech training provider so you can gain computer skills and experience to start or advance your high-tech career
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Flight training
Help paying for training to become a pilot
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On-the-job training and apprenticeships
Money to help cover books, supplies, and housing while learning a trade or skill (like plumbing, hotel management, or firefighting)
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Entrepreneurship training
Access to training to help you start your own business
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Work while you study
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Co-op training
Help with paying for tuition, books, and housing if you’re part of a college or university co-op training program
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Work study
The opportunity to get paid for part-time work while you study at a college, vocational, or professional school
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Take classes from home
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Correspondence training
Funding for correspondence training (coursework completed by mail, online, or by some other device) if you want to take classes from home or live far from any schools
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Independent and distance learning
Tuition assistance for online courses