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Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve

Program Information

Popular name

Montgomery GI Bill - Selected Reserve (MGIB-SR or Chapter 1606)

Program Number

64.032

Program objective

To encourage membership in units of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve and to provide educational assistance to members of the reserve components called or ordered to active service in response to a war or national emergency declared by the President or Congress.

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. 2019

    MGIB-SR: In FY 19, 44,356 individuals trained. (FY20 est.:42,868; FY 21 est.:41,431)

    REAP: In FY 19, 299 individuals trained (FY 20 est. 0; FY 21 est.: 0)

  2. 2022

    Per the Veterans Benefits Administration’s 2022 Annual Benefits Report, 36,374 beneficiaries received chapter 1606, MGIB-SR 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.

Title 10, U.S. Code, chapter 1606.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Education

Eligible applicants

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Individual/Family

Additional resources