I too due to life demand to support my children as a single parent was initially unable to use any of the benefit. Once things stabliazed I now am past the ten years and have lost all of it. In an attempt of not being a burden on welfare and other assistance programs by working instead of the other route have penalized myself. Please remove the ten year limit. I retired in 1997

I paid into the Montgomery GI Bill, served active duty four years. Married, started a family, and supported the military career of my spouse. GI Bill is another form of a ponzi scheme.

I served for a single enlistment and spent 13 months in desert AOR's. When I got out I went straight to work and didn't have the time for school.

Now that I am more mature and established I would relish the opportunity

Would love to be able to use the GI Bill I paid into and never used :)

I found out about my benefits at 15 years - 5 years too late to use them ....

This benefit should not have a time limit. PERIOD

The difference we have made while serving for out country lasts a lifetime... So should our G.I Bill benifits.

They should not lose their benefits in a time frame. A lot of jobs are ending and they need continued education for future employment.

It is appalling…no, it’s unconscionable to discover that after years of service to the United States, and as a pilot in Viet Nam, I (or any other veteran) am ineligible to receive unused G.I Bill educational benefits.

When I returned from the Army as a young man in 1971, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and I certainly didn’t have the clarity of mind to pursue my education until many years later.

Now that I’ve honored my responsibilities to my family, I find that my benefits terminated 10 years after my separation from the military – ages ago. In other words, the government has decided to punish those of us who served with honor, simply because we did not elect to be pigeon holed into using our rightful educational benefits within the narrow time frame dictated by the government…an arbitrary number that they, in their unquestioned wisdom, determined was a fit and proper time limit. Horse hockey!

What time Limit? How could anyone dare put a time constraint on education? Is a veteran of 60 years of age less worthy to be eligible for an education than a veteran of 25? If I desire to attend college, or flight school, or any other approved curriculum after 10 years of separation, or twenty years, or thirty years…why would I be any less eligible for training than when I first left the military? Those benefits were earned…they’re ours. The logic here escapes me…and with good reason…there is no logic to it.

In reading over the eligibility documents, I discovered that every kind of Federal financial aid assistance is available to both active duty and recently separated veterans…from GI Bill educational benefits to military Tuition Assistance programs and everything in between; and I applaud that. But I’ve been shocked and dismayed to learn that virtually nothing exists in the way of assistance for vets from the Vietnam, Korean, or WWII eras. Remarkably, the 10 year separation limit applies to all but the recent past. Why? It’s as if we’ve all been forgotten, discarded, and put out to pasture.

I decry the current policies and exhort the government of the United States to rescind the policy restrictions that have barred thousands like me from garnering a formal education based on this arbitrary time limit. This unfair and unrealistic policy has robbed us of what is rightfully ours. If I have unused benefits, restore them to me that I might elevate my position and become a more valuable asset and contributor for the sake of this nation’s productivity and for the sake of freedom.

Definitely should not expire.