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Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance

Program Information

Popular name

Post-9/11 GI Bill - Chapter 33

Program Number

64.028

Program objective

To assist beneficiaries in receiving educational benefits and training and to help service members adjust to civilian life after separation from military service, assist in the recruitment and retention of highly qualified personnel in the active and reserve components in the Armed Forces by providing education benefits, and to provide educational opportunities to the dependents of certain service members and veterans.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2011

    510,149 trained 510,149 trained

  2. 2012

    510149

  3. 2013

    510149

  4. 2019

    In FY 19, 714,346 individuals trained. (FY 20 est.: 727,519; FY 21 est.: 724,610)

  5. 2022

    Per the Veterans Benefits Administrations’ 2022 Annual Benefits Report, 564,501 beneficiaries received chapter 33, Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

38 CFR 21.9500-21.9770.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Education

Eligible applicants

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Individual/Family

Additional resources