The VA will determine your pay-rate based off the length of the term and the number of credit hours that students are enrolled.
Chapter 30, 31 &35 recipients generally need to enroll in the following hour load in order to receive full-time payment benefits.
Spring: 12hrs is full time [*Full semester]
Fall: 12hrs is full time [*Full semester]
Summer 1, formerly maymester: 3hrs is full time [Quarter semester]
Summer 2, formerly summer-one: 6hrs is full time [Mini semester]
Summer 3, formerly summer-two: 6hrs is full time [Mini semester]
Summer, formerly summer-three: 12hrs is full time [*Full semester]
*Graduate level students will need to enroll in 9hrs to receive full-time payment benefits, unless they are enrolled in thesis, dissertation, or student teaching courses.
During the summer semesters, if you overlap the Summer 2 & 3 with the Summer semester it can lead to unordinary payments from the VA. The Summer 2 & 3 semesters are mini terms and the VA has lowered the enrollment requirement needed to receive full-time benefits. Students enrolled in a mini semester while concurrently enrolled in a full semester may not qualify for full-time benefits.
The VA will pay out GI Bill benefits based enrollment for each individual semester; they do not combine the summer terms.
The summer months can be tricky to plan out, if you have any questions please contact the TWU Veterans Program Office. All pay-rates are determined and regulated by the VA. You can contact the VA at 1-888-442-4551 (1-888-GI-BILL-1).
page updated 10/29/2011 12:48 PM
