GI Bill enrollment verification FAQs

You’ll need to verify your enrollment every month to receive your GI Bill benefit payments. Your enrollment verification helps avoid overpayments that you would need to pay back later.

For Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits: You’ll need to verify your enrollment if you get monthly housing allowance or kicker payments.

You don’t need to verify your enrollment if you’re completing an apprenticeship, or on-the-job, flight, or correspondence training.

For Montgomery GI Bill benefits: You’ll need to verify your enrollment if both of these are true for you:

You don’t need to verify your enrollment if you’re completing an apprenticeship, or on-the-job, flight, or correspondence training.

For Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits: We’ll pause your monthly benefit payments after 2 consecutive months of not verifying your enrollment.

For Montgomery GI Bill benefits: We won’t send your monthly benefits payment if you don’t verify your enrollment.

You’ll need to verify your enrollment at the end of every month after your school starts. For example, if your school starts on August 5, you’ll need to verify your enrollment on or after

August 31.

If you were enrolled in school for any part of the month, you’ll need to verify your enrollment for that month. For example, if your school ends on May 5, you’ll need to verify your

enrollment for the month of May on or after May 5.

Sign in to our online tool to check your enrollment information.

You can also check your enrollment information on your education decision letter. 

Ask your School Certifying Official (SCO) to update your information as soon as possible.

Note: You can use our GI Bill Comparison Tool to search for your school and find your SCO.

For Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits: We process your benefit payment on the first day of every month. It can take up to 5 days to arrive.

If you get your monthly benefit payment before verifying your enrollment, you should still verify your enrollment. We pause your monthly benefit payments after 2 consecutive months of not

verifying your enrollment.

For Montgomery GI Bill benefits: We process your benefit payment after you verify your enrollment. It can take up to 5 days to arrive.

You can contact us through Ask VA to ask about your benefit payment.

Or, you can call us at (TTY: 711). If you live outside of the U.S., call us at +1-.

You can update your contact information in either of these ways:

You can also sign in to our online tool to update your contact information and direct deposit information.

Note: The updates you make using this tool will change only the direct deposit and contact information connected to your Montgomery GI Bill benefits. To update your information for any other

benefits, you’ll need to go to your VA.gov profile.

You can get answers to your questions in either of these ways:

You can switch to verifying your enrollment on VA.gov, through Ask VA, or by phone at any time. If you’re currently verifying your enrollment by text or email, we’ll continue to send you

monthly texts or emails until you opt out.

If you want to start verifying your enrollment by text or email, you’ll need to make a request in one of these ways:

No. You can’t use an online messaging service, like Google Voice or WhatsApp.

No. You’ll never need to provide any personal information by text.

No. You don’t need to opt in to verify your enrollment by text again. We’ll send you a text when you restart your program or school.