Verify your eligibility for Veterans Education Benefits (GI BILL, MGIB, VEAP).   Call the Veterans Administration at 1800-827-1000 and ask them to verify your benefits.  If you need to submit a form to the VA for further investigation of your record, you can download them online.
When I did this during my transition, I discovered that the VA had two records on me.  One said I was eligible for benefits…..the other said I wasn’t!  I had to submit an application for benefits, even though I wasn’t planning to go to school, to get my record reconciled.  It was apparently the only way to get any action taken on it.  It took a few months to get it straightened out.

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