Change would ease GI Bill transfers to children
Service members would have more flexibility to share Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits with their children under a House bill introduced on Wednesday.
The bill, HR 5737, would remove a restriction that benefits must be transferred before the child is age 23. It would not change a restriction under which children may use transferred benefits only until age 26.
Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., is the bill’s sponsor.
In a statement, Moore said she could find “no valid policy reason” for requiring benefits to be transferred by age 23. The effect of the policy has been to prevent people from sharing a few years or months of benefits with a child who is between the age of 23 and 26, she said.
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