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**highattainlet** · 06-20-2012, 06:00 PM

1) What "red tape" would this produce? Schools already have all this information, now they'll just be required to provide it upon request.

2) Just using your GI Bill requires the school to stay on top of their own paperwork. If your benefits are delayed, but you did everything right, and the VA did everything right, but it was the school's financial aid department that screwed up, why SHOULDN'T they be held accountable?

3) As of now, there's no "complaint department" that I'm aware of for the GI Bill. If the school took your benefits money, but fail to provide the quality of service promised - why not hold them accountable?

4) You're right that there are a lot of unscrupulous companies that exploit military folks and veterans. But unlike, say, loan sharks, this is an actual government benefit that gets wasted - hence why this would be a high priority to keep accountability for.

I buy into the whole concept of the government ensuring it gets a valid return on its investment, no arguments here. The complaints system makes sense, no concerns there either. What is rather dubious is the timing, the level of necessity, and the "specifics" of the EO, which seems to have come out of nowhere.

The devil in the details is my biggest concern, and that 90/10 business quite frankly concerns me even moreso. I somehow doubt the for-profit institutions playing the system is an endemic, but if it is I would bet a month's paycheck you'll see quite a few tuition rates jump quite a bit to compensate for becoming "compliant" should there be significant problems.

Again, this thing, kind of like our little "indefinite detention" insertion in the last NDAA, seemed to pop up out of nowhere, no one has really vetted this thing and I have concerns that this little change will have some unintended consequences that are hidden behind smoke and mirrors.

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highattainlet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	1) What "red tape" would this produce? Schools already have all this information, now they'll just be required to provide it upon request. 2) Just using your GI Bill requires the school to stay on top of their own paperwork. If your benefits are delayed, but you did everything right, and the VA did everything right, but it was the school's financial aid department that screwed up, why SHOULDN'T they be held accountable? 3) As of now, there's no "complaint department" that I'm aware of for the GI Bill. If the school took your benefits money, but fail to provide the quality of service promised - why not hold them accountable? 4) You're right that there are a lot of unscrupulous companies that exploit military folks and veterans. But unlike, say, loan sharks, this is an actual government benefit that gets wasted - hence why this would be a high priority to keep accountability for. I buy into the whole concept of the government ensuring it gets a valid return on its investment, no arguments here. The complaints system makes sense, no concerns there either. What is rather dubious is the timing, the level of necessity, and the "specifics" of the EO, which seems to have come out of nowhere. The devil in the details is my biggest concern, and that 90/10 business quite frankly concerns me even moreso. I somehow doubt the for-profit institutions playing the system is an endemic, but if it is I would bet a month's paycheck you'll see quite a few tuition rates jump quite a bit to compensate for becoming "compliant" should there be significant problems. Again, this thing, kind of like our little "indefinite detention" insertion in the last NDAA, seemed to pop up out of nowhere, no one has really vetted this thing and I have concerns that this little change will have some unintended consequences that are hidden behind smoke and mirrors.
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