Jacksonville vets lose GI Bill tuition before graduating from career college – Action News Jax
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Local veterans attending a career college in Jacksonville, have been cut off from their federally funded tuition.
According to a Department of Veterans Affairs spokesman, the Florida State Approving Agency (SAA) withdrew GI Bill approval for all of Florida Career College’s campuses in Florida on Feb. 3 and notified the school and VA of its decision.
Navy veteran Steven Oxfurth got the bad news 12 days later on Feb. 15. “They told us that they were no longer going to be receiving funding,” he said.
Oxfurth and several other veterans learned their benefits, which included tuition and a monthly stipend, would end three months shy of graduating from a nine-month HVAC program.
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