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 * The Servicemens's Readjustment Act was the original name for the G.I Bill. I was signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt On June 22, 1944.** **The G. I. Bill. Its purpose was to help support those who were in need of financial assistants for college. With the G.I. Bill, African Americans didn't benefit from the bill like the other troops. By 1946, only one fifth of the 100,000 blacks who had applied for educational beinifits has beenn registered in college. African Americans were not just victims of discrimination after the war, but between 1940 and 1950 they had to deal with proverty. The G.I Bill made it hard for African Americans to seek education when they had to work and do things at home.**======

** Amirah Burkett **

TITLE I CHAPTER I-HOSPITALIZATION, CLAIMS, AND PROCEDURES The people who are at war are entitled to things such as personnel, equipment, supplies and material under any circumstance and are granted the same power and choice as the War and Navy Departments and the United States Public Health Service. They are entitled to apply to any place that offers hospitalization for veterans.
 * SEC. 100.** //The Veterans' Administration is hereby declared to be an essential war agency and entitled, second only to the War and Navy Departments, to priorities in personnel, equipment, supplies, and material under any laws, Executive orders, and regulations pertaining to priorities, and in appointments of personnel from civil-service registers the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby granted the same authority and discretion as the War and Navy Departments and the United States Public Health Service: Provided, That the provisions of this section as to priorities for materials shall apply to any State institution to be built for the care or hospitalization of veterans.//


 * SEC. 101.** //The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs and the Federal Board of Hospitalization are hereby authorized and directed to expedite and complete the construction of additional hospital facilities for war veterans, and to enter into agreements and contracts for the use by or transfer to the Veterans' Administration of suitable Army and Navy hospitals after termination of hostilities in the present war or after such institutions are no longer needed by the armed services; and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to establish necessary regional offices, sub- offices, branch offices, contact units, or other subordinate offices in centers of population where there is no Veterans' Administration facility, or where such a facility is not readily available or accessible : Provided, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $500,000,000 for the construction of additional hospital facilities.//

Whoever is the Administrator of the Veterans' Affairs should have the right to put people in Army and Navy instillations so they will have people to talk to and provides aid for those who are about to be discharged or released from the service.
 * SEC.103.** //The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall have authority to place officials and employees designated by him in such Army and Navy installations as may be deemed advisable for the purpose of adjudicating disability claims of, and giving aid and advice to, members of the Army and Navy who are about to be discharged or released from active service.//

No person in the service should be required to sign anything relating to past, recent or to annoy diseases or injury they may have.
 * SEC. 105.** //No person in the armed forces shall be required to sign a statement of any nature relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of any disease or injury he may have, and any such statement against his own interest signed at any time, shall be null and void and of no force and effect.//

Some criticism of the the Post 9/11 GI Bill was that, there were delays in giving payments to the colleges, so the government decided to give them checks but because the checks were too large, banks didn't honor these "checks" as checks. Also Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America said that this bill was disorganized and hard to manage and needs to be changed so that there isn't a state by state money limit but a national wide money limit.
 * Were there any critics of the bill? Who were they? What was their argument?** - Kristina Chiev

Other criticisms that were made was before this bill was even passed. A man by the name Eric Hilleman, who is the deputy director of national legislative services for the Veteran of Foreign Wars said that he was anxious on how Congress was going to make a bill like this happen. They have the money to make it happen but do they have the will to do it.

Some veterans that are already in one of the GI Bills, like Tim Kaufmann, said that the timing of this bill was bad and/or too late. Many veterans are almost done graduating and because of the date the bill was released which is was, August 1, 2009, so many veterans only get the extra amount of money to pay for only 1 semester instead for the couple of years they've been in college. The timing also effected the colleges that veterans went to because of the pricing of the college and the amount of money the bill before the GI Bill wouldn't pay for teir dream college.


 * What is the Post 9/11 GI Bill? How is it similar or different from the original?** - Kristina Chiev

Post 9/11 GI Bill was made to give financial support to people who had been in service in the military for 90 days on September 11, 2001 or after. For individuals who have been injured, they would have to be discharged with a disability connected to their service in the military, 30 days after 9/11. In order to get these benefits, a service member must be eligibly and must apply. This bill went into effect in August 1, 2009.
 * Post 9/11 GI Bill**

The financial support that they offer can only be used for education and housing. When a person is qualify for the training or bill, they


 * Similarities**
 * Both the WW2 and Post 9/11 GI Bill provide money for education opportunities
 * Received money for housing
 * Both education tuition both have limits
 * Only for veterans of a certain event that the bill was made for, like the WW2 GI Bill was made for WW2 war veterans and Post 9/11 GI Bill is made for people who have served on active duty for 90 or more days since September 11, 2009.


 * Differences**
 * **WW2 GI Bill**
 * Pays up to $500 for college tuition
 * made for teenagers who had came home from war and are now adults.
 * Program ended 1989
 * It was known as "the Magic Carpet to the Middle Class."
 * **Post 9/11 GI Bill**
 * Amount of financial support someone gets depends on where that individual lives
 * Served for service members and/or war veterans after 9/11
 * The amount of time someone spends on duty and/or service, the more benefits they get from the bill
 * The benefits of this bill is 100% paid tuition, money for housing, and up to $1000 for books and supplies
 * The bill expiration data is 15 years after the individual decides to go off duty to go to school
 * Individuals that are currently serving the army can transfer the education opportunity to either a spouse or one of their children
 * Currently still around

This picture showing a person who went to the office and asked if he could sign up for the G.I. Bill for school. Don Balfour was studying at the time when the G.I. Bill was signed and because he was a veteran, he decided to go and ask to sign up for the bill. They approved him and he is the first to go to college with help from the G.I. Bill.


 * Bibliography**

"New Post-9/11 GI Bill Overview." //Military.com//. Military Advantage, 2010. Web. 22 Mar 2010. .

Reinhardt, Claudia. "The GI Bill ." //Wessels Living History Farms//. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar 2010. .

"20 Top FAQs for the New GI Bill." //Military.com//. Military Advantage, 2010. Web. 22 Mar 2010. .

"The G.I. Bill." //The George Washington University In and Of The District of Columbia//. Web. 22 Mar 2010. .

Davarics, Charles. "As Veterans Try To Use Benefit, New G.I. Bill Draws Criticism." //Diverse// October 12, 2009: 1. Web. 22 Mar 2010. .

Davenport, Christian. "Expanded GI Bill Too Late for Some." //Washington Post// October 21, 2008: 1-2. Web. 22 Mar 2010. .