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Hey everyone! I'm a rising sophomore in college and my father spent 29 and a half years in the Navy. He maxed out the GI bill and also is a disabled veteran who toured in Desert Storm and is now retired. Because of this, we were expecting to have full GI Bill benefits to get me through all four years of college.

When it came time to request to use the benefits, we got rejected. We found out that when my father applied to transfer benefits to my name in ~2010, someone made a clerical error which led to zero records of the application and thus no transfer occurred. This means that we couldn't use the benefits since my father retired in 2018 and they're still in his name. The Department of the Navy couldn't help since there was no record of the transfer, so I don't know if there's anything I can do

As a student, I hate to see my family paying for college out of pocket because we were planning on having it fully paid for. Has anybody been in a similar situation, and if so, what did you do? Are there any other ways that we can prove my father applied for a transfer?

I'm truly at a loss for what I should do so any help is truly appreciated!

Hey everyone! I'm a rising sophomore in college and my father spent 29 and a half years in the Navy. He maxed out the GI bill and also is a disabled veteran who toured in Desert Storm and is now retired. Because of this, we were expecting to have full GI Bill benefits to get me through all four years of college. When we began applying for a transfer of benefits (he originally used some of it for his college), we found that he, for some reason, didn't have permission to transfer these benefits to me. After consulting our local Congresswoman and reading into our rejection letters, we discovered that someone messed up some kind of paperwork years ago when my father went through his retirement process. Our Congresswoman said that she faced the same issue as us, so she contacted the Department of the Navy to see what they could do. They said that we were out of luck.

As a student, I hate to see my family paying for college out of pocket because we were planning on having it fully paid for. Has anybody been in a similar situation, and if so, what did you do? Should I find a lawyer to fight for some kind of compensation? Should we try contacting other departments?

I'm truly at a loss for what I should do and my parents seem to have given up hope, so any help is truly appreciated!

Hey everyone! I'm a rising sophomore in college and my father spent 29 and a half years in the Navy. He maxed out the GI bill and also is a disabled veteran who toured in Desert Storm and is now retired. Because of this, we were expecting to have full GI Bill benefits to get me through all four years of college. When we began applying for a transfer of benefits (he originally used some of it for his college), we found that he, for some reason, didn't have permission to transfer these benefits to me. After consulting our local Congresswoman and reading into our rejection letters, we discovered that someone messed up some kind of paperwork years ago when my father went through his retirement process. Our Congresswoman said that she faced the same issue as us, so she contacted the Department of the Navy to see what they could do. They said that we were out of luck.

As a student, I hate to see my family paying for college out of pocket because we were planning on having it fully paid for. Has anybody been in a similar situation, and if so, what did you do? Should I find a lawyer to fight for some kind of compensation? Should we try contacting other departments?

I'm truly at a loss for what I should do and my parents seem to have given up hope, so any help is truly appreciated!