Tagged: Veterans

Three bills were filed in both the North Carolina house and senate last week to assist veterans with tuition for state schools. 

A Stand Down refers to a safe place for exhausted combat units to rest and recover away from the battlefield during wartime. Here at home, Stand Downs are also known as community events connecting homeless veterans to services and supplies they don’t have. 

When changes to the GI Bill took effect in January, the revisions bridged a gap between the cost of public and private higher education for student veterans, leveling the educational playing field.

But WHQR's Sara Wood reports a new clause has created an unintended financial burden for several hundred student veterans in North Carolina.