GI Bill

noun

1. any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.

GI Bill

1. A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II . Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.

Example Sentences

Programs like the GI Bill, celebrated as America’s first “color-blind” policy, ostensibly extended benefits to all veterans.

From Salon

Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, however, are reserved only for those with a fully honorable discharge.

From Los Angeles Times

Those low tuition costs and high earnings — along with his GI Bill benefits and a federal Pell Grant — will enable Roa to graduate debt free and transform the future of his family.

From Los Angeles Times

Rao, for one, could not afford to go straight to college from high school and did not want to go into debt, so he enlisted in the Navy — in part to qualify for the GI Bill benefits that would pay for his education.

From Los Angeles Times

As described in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Vance overcame a hardscrabble childhood and attended Ohio State University on the federally funded GI Bill, which provides grants for thousands of veterans, including not only Vance but his vice-presidential rival, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

From Salon