Ensuring Military Access to Higher Education Benefits Act of 2024

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HR 7477

Introduced

Feb 29, 2024

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Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a peri ...

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Armed Forces and National Security Department of Defense Department of Education Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government lending and loan guarantees Higher education Military personnel and dependents Student aid and college costs Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

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Ensuring Military Access to Higher Education Benefits Act of 2024

This bill requires the Department of Defense to complete a data matching agreement with the Department of Education to ensure that current or former active-duty military service members or civilian employees who are eligible for the public service loan forgiveness program have their periods of employment (beginning on October 1, 2007) certified.

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Feb 29, 2024

Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 29, 2024

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