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Questions
Did you fill out a certification request for the semester?
No: please fill out the form linked above.
Yes: Did you verify this month with the VA? Call the VA education hotline for any questions 1-888-442-4551
- If so, when did they certify? Depending on the date certified and if it’s the students first term, payment might be greatly delayed.
- I.E. if the student submitted a request on the first day of the term, the processing time might take an additional month.
Did your pay seem off?
- Remember particle months will not be the full amount.
- What is your benefit and % of it?
Did you make changes to your classes after your certification request?
- Any changes need to have a new certification request sent in. This could be one reason your payment isn’t right.
Were you considered full-time or part-time?
- This can reduce payments. Also ensure you had a in-person component.
- Tuition is reported to the V.A. after the add drop deadline for each semester. This will take a few weeks after the semester starts. Look at the add and drop deadlines.
- MSU Denver does not drop for late tuition payments.
- Holds may appear, if so, ensure you sent in your COE and contact our office. We can remove the hold for the tuition balance.
- You may still get notification to pay your bill, if you sent in your certification request for the semester, you can ignore this Ch 33 and 31.
- Ch 1606, 30 and 35 the student is responsible for paying tuition and fees directly to the school on time.
- Students must tell us of all schedule changes, failure to do so may result in inaccurate tuition and payment.
- There is a deadline for both 100% and 50% refunds, if the student drops a class after the 100% deadline, they will need to pay the V.A. the difference in balance.
- If the student drops below 12 credit hours, the V.A. will want reimbursement from both BAH and tuition!
- If the student can drop a class(s) without going below full-time, only a small fee from that class will be need to pay back.
Classes not pertaining to your degree will not be covered. In addition, a major must be declared.
- For Post 9/11 the V.A. will cover the cost for on-campus health care based on your eligibility level.
- If the student is not 100% eligible and has another health insurance provider, it would be in their best interest to waive the school’s insurance.
- Most students keep this insurance due to ease of access. They provide all medical needs, and CU provides dental for veterans.
- The Center is located in the Health center, Plaza building, Suite 150.
- Tuition Assistance through Department of Defense must be set up with the student’s service branch prior to the beginning of the semester. Each service has its own criteria for eligibility, obligated service, the application process, and restrictions. This money is usually paid directly to the institution after billing is completed for the semester.
- Once the student receives their authorization for TA, they must send this to the Bursars office. The student is responsible for adhering to all payment deadlines regardless of when TA funds are applied to their account.
- Please send all completed TA Authorization Forms to Bursars since they will handle the billing and to the Veterans Services Center.
Buckley Education Center 720-847-6675
Fort Carson Education Center 720-526-2124
There are a few factors that will determine your status.
- Your education benefit type:Chapter 35 and 1606; does not have to attend in person classes.
Chapter 31, 33, 30; do need to have an in person aspect. If you cant make this work that is fine there will just be a difference in pay. See next question for more information.
- Instructional method: Please click: Education Benefits to read and learn more about this topic.
- Credit hours: See next question.
To be considered full-time the VA requires that you are registered for 12 credit hours in the Spring/Fall semesters. For summer semester you will need to be registered for 6 credit hours.
The VA requires that ONE class needs to be on campus and the rest can be distance learning courses.
If the veteran is registered for distance learning courses ONLY then they will only rate half of the national average for the monthly housing allowance.
Your credit hours to be considered full time need to be for the whole semester. (All classes Spring/Fall 16 weeks start to end) and (All summer are about 8 weeks start to end)
- COE (Certification of Eligibility) comes from the VA
- Certification Request is on the Vet MSU site that needs to be filled out by you every semester.
- Student must have had accepted aid on their student hub.
- Financial Aid is paid into your MSU Denver tuition first, and will not be disbursed to you until the V.A. pays the tuition.
- However, a student may fill out a Financial Aid Release Form that will forward payment to the student. This must be done every semester.
- It is usually disbursed within two weeks of starting classes.
- A late certification request will delay payment
- $1,000 is awarded over the school year at $41.66 per credit hour.
- In addition, if during both fall and spring the student receives $500, then during summer, the books would not be paid for by the V.A.
- Ch 31 please contact your VR&E counselor if you have questions regarding how to get your books. It is not the same process as Ch 33.
- If your counselor gave you their email address contact them through that and patiently wait for a reply
- If you don’t have the email address you can email [email protected] to get to the VR&E email box