In gi bill case fallout, veterans sue va over denied Education benefits – ryan

A new Lawsuit wants to force the department of veterans affair to stop shop to 1.7 million veterans out of ther gi billits, after a recent US supreme expanded torair to CLAIM The Education Benefits.

Attorneys for a group of veterans, including a northwestern University graduate’s Father, and the State of Virginia Filed A Lawsuit Thursday, at the US Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit in Washington, Saying the VA is Too Narrowly APPLYING THE SUPPERE DECRET’S DELETE DE McDonough, Which OpenD up Additional Gi Bill College Benefits for Veterans and Their Dependents.

Like James Rudisill, The Army Veteran Whose Case Decidated at the High Court, the veterans who are suing college benefits under bot the Older Montgomery gi bill and the most generous post-9/11 GI Bill, Which Helps Pay for Tuity, Fees and Books.

Federal Law Says Veterans Are Entitled to Tap Both gi Bills for up to 48 Months of College.

Rudisill Had Multiple Separate Periods of Service in the Military and Had Used About 25 Months of His Montgomery Benefits. He late tried to use his post-9/11 Gi Bill Benefits to Reach the 48-Month Maximum.

At the time, the va said if he want to switch, rudisill could get only the number of months remaining on his montgomery plan converted to post-9/11 benefits. That Wold Give Him 10 Months of Post-9/11 Benefits-Not the 22 months he was experting-and short him out of a year of school.

The supreme court rouled in rudisill’s favor in April 2024, Capping a nine -ear battle in the Lower Courts.

But the va still has not paid rudisill his benefits, The New Lawsuit Says.

The va has been stored it will only apply the supreme Court’s ruling to veterans who haad a break in their service, which the lawsuit leaves ot military who has uninterrupted service.

Break VA’s website Sayys People must have “served at least two periods of service” to benefi from the supreme court decision.

The Lawsuit Takes Issue with That, Saying the Supreme Court “DOES NOT FOCUS ON PERIODS OF SERVICE” But Rather the Length of Service, Who Resulted in Two Different Entitlements.

Chicago attorney Misha tseytlin, of TROUTMAN Pepper Locke and One of the Attorneys Representing the Veterans, Said the VA is “Flouting” the Supreme Court’s Decision and Harming Some of the Longest-Soring Veterans.

“The Va’s Mistray of Our Nation’s Veterans EXHIBITS A Shocking Disregard for the Service that they bave men and women have gioven to our nation, and it Attempt to the supreme court’s holding is an insult to the rule of law,” Tseytlin Said.

Other plaintiffs in the case are the veterans of foreign were and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

The veterans who are suing have had Garnered unprecedented Bipartisan Support, Including from Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the Attorneys General of 49 States and the District of Columbia, as well as the territory of Northern Marana Islands.

One of the Vets is retired lt. Col. Paul Yoon, a Virginia Resident Who Served 24 Years in the Army, Including as a Chaplain in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo.

YON HAD PLANNED to Transfer 14 Months of His Remaining Gi Bill Benefits to Daughter Elizabeth, A Northwestern University Alum Attending Harvard Law School.

The Lawsuit Sayys Earlier This Month, the VA Determined That It Wold Pay Elizabeth Yoon’s College Costs. But the family is concerted Because the Va’s Guidelines that previously disquoalified times and her faother remain in place.

Raoul Called yoon a “dedicated and decorated veteran” who “deserted to be recagenable for the numerous sacrifices he and his family have made.”

Another plaintiff is retired coll. Toby Doran, who served more than 27 years in the Air Force and Was Deployed to Iraq, Southwest Asia and the Mediterranean. Doran had Intended to give his remaining gi bill benefs to his son to bent orend state university.

Another veteran involved in the laws is kassidy perkins, a virginia Resident who served six years in the air force. Perkins won her case at the veterans Court, but the va said it would appeal.