VETERANS BENEFITS

Veterans and eligible dependents of veterans who wish to apply for educational benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs should contact a Records Clerk in the Records Office located in Derryberry Hall, Room 102. The clerk has all necessary forms available to make application for benefits.

CERTIFICATION. Certifications will be processed and mailed to the VA upon the student's completion of Admission Requirements. This includes receipt of transcripts from all previous colleges attended or high school transcripts if no post-secondary schools were attended. Please refer to the Admission section of this catalog for complete Admission requirements.

Veterans Administration General Guidelines:

• VA will only pay for courses required in the degree you are seeking; therefore, if you wish to take a course that is not required in the degree you are working toward, you must take it above and beyond the credit hours needed for full veterans benefits.
• You must have a least 12 hours of required courses in your major to get full veterans educational benefits.
• VA will only pay benefits for one program at a time. If you are working toward two different degrees and/or programs at the same time, you must choose which one will be your primary program to be reported to VA. Your pay will be determined by the hours taken toward your primary program.
• VA will only pay for repeating courses with failing grades, unless the TTU catalog specifically states that a certain grade is required. Also, VA will not pay for a course if you have received equivalent course credit for that course from another institution.
• VA will not pay for auditing a course.
• You must attend your classes in order to receive Veterans Educational Benefits. If you stop attending a class, the instructor will report your last date of attendance to the Records Office and Records will report that date to the VA. VA will adjust your benefits accordingly.