Application for VA Education Benefits

ITEMS Removed from Version May 2023 VA Form 22-1990 for RUDISILL Election/Revocation Issue:

INSTRUCTIONS PAGE

ITEM 9E. If you are eligible for MGIB or MGIB-SR, you must elect to give up eligibility under the program for which you are eligible in order to receive benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill (chapter 33). If you are eligible for more than one of the programs listed (MGIB or MGIB-SR), you are only required to give up one of the programs for which you are eligible in order to receive benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. You may not receive more than a total of 48 months of benefits under two or more programs. If you elect chapter 33 in lieu of MGIB or MGIB-SR and you have used MGIB in the past, your months of entitlement under chapter 33 will be limited to the number of months of entitlement remaining under the relinquished chapter 30 benefit on the effective date of your election. If you wish to elect to receive benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, check the box next to the program (only check one box) you are giving up.

NOTE: An election to give up benefits under an existing program and receive benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill is IRREVOCABLE. You should carefully consider your decision before completing this section. If you need more information to make a choice, you should visit our website at www.benefits.va.gov/gibill or call our toll-free customer service number at 1-888-GIBILL-1 (1-888-442-4551).

REMOVING PARENTHETICAL ONLY

9A. Chapter 33 - Post-9/11 GI Bill (After checking this box, check and complete Item 9E, if you are receiving, or if you are eligible for benefits under Chapter 30 or Chapter 1606).

REMOVING QUESTION 9E AND THE RELATED QUESTION 14

9E. By electing Chapter 33 in Item 9A, I acknowledge that I understand the following:

• I may not receive more than a total of 48 months of benefit entitlement under two or more of the education programs listed on this application.

• If electing Chapter 33, in lieu of Chapter 30, my months of entitlement under Chapter 33 will be limited to the number of months of entitlement remaining under Chapter 30 on the effective date of my election.

• I will not receive a Montgomery GI Bill (Active Duty-Chapter 30 or Selected Reserve-Chapter 1606) "Kicker" under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, unless I was eligible for the kicker at the time I applied and I relinquished that benefit for the Post-9/11 GI Bill-Chapter 33.

• When choosing the effective date below, I understand that benefits for training under Chapter 33 are not payable prior to that date.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: I elect to receive Chapter 33 education benefits effective , in lieu of the education benefit

Checked below. (Date)

By checking the box below, I am acknowledging that I understand that this election is irrevocable and may not be changed, and that failure to check one of the boxes below may cause a delay in the processing of this claim. (PLEASE CHECK ONLY ONE BOX FOR THE BENEFIT YOU RELINQUISH FOR CHAPTER 33.)

You MUST check only one box below:

□Chapter 30 - Montgomery GI Bill Educational Assistance Program (MGIB)

□Chapter 1606 - Montgomery GI Bill - Selected Reserve Educational Assistance Program (MGIB-SR)

14. VA will assume that you want us to apply every period of service that you have identified in Item 13 above to the single, specific benefit you are applying for in Part II (the benefit chosen between Items 9A thru 9D). However, if there are specific periods of service that you do not want applied to the benefit selected in Part II (Items 9A thru 9D), then please identify in the space below the periods of service and the corresponding benefit program(s) to which you would like them applied.

NOTE: A specific single period of service may not be used towards establishing eligibility for more than one benefit. Therefore, once a period of service has been chosen and applied toward a specific benefit, that period of service may not be used again toward a different benefit. However, there is one exception to this rule. With regard to Chapter 33, a period of service beginning before August 1, 2011, can be used to establish eligibility to Chapter 33 even if it has already been used to establish eligibility to a different benefit.