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Verify your school enrollment

If you’re using Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, you can verify your enrollment for school or training on VA.gov. If you’re using Montgomery GI Bill benefits, you can verify your enrollment on the WAVE website. For other education benefits, keep reading to find out how to verify your enrollment.

For Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits

You can verify your enrollment online.

What information will you ask me to verify? 

We’ll ask you to verify these 2 details about your enrollment:

  • Your credit hours or clock hours
  • The start and end dates of your enrollment for the month 

Other ways to verify your enrollment for Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits

By text

We’ll send you a text when you start your program. We’ll ask if you want to verify your enrollment by text. If you respond “yes,” we’ll send you a text every month asking you to verify your enrollment.

By email

If you choose not to get text messages or you don’t use texting, we’ll email you instead to verify your enrollment each month. We’ll send a message to the email address we have in our records for you.

Online

You can verify your enrollment through Ask VA. In your message, be sure to include the dates of your enrollment in school or training. 

Verify your enrollment through Ask VA

By phone 

Call us at 888-442-4551 (TTY: 711). We’re here Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.

For Montgomery GI Bill benefits 

You’ll need to verify your enrollment each month using the Web Automated Verification of Enrollment (WAVE) system.

Verify your enrollment using WAVE

For other education benefits

VET TEC

You’ll need to verify your enrollment each month by email for Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC).

Include this information in your email: 

  • Your first name, middle initial, and last name, and
  • The dates you were enrolled in training for the month

Verify your enrollment by email

STEM Scholarship

You’ll need to verify your enrollment each month for the Edith Nourse Rogers Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) Scholarship in 1 of these 2 ways:

By text 

We’ll send you a text asking if you want to get messages through our STEMText service. If you choose to get texts from us, we’ll send you a message each month by text asking you to verify your enrollment. 

Learn more from our STEMText video (YouTube)

Note: When you verify your enrollment by text instead of email, you may get your housing payments faster. If you need to update your phone number, call us at 888-442-4551. We’re here Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.

By email 

You’ll need to email us each month with the dates of your enrollment in school or training. 

Verify your enrollment by email

What if I have other questions?

You can contact us online through Ask VA.

Contact us online through Ask VA

Or call us at 888-442-4551 (TTY: 711). We’re here Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.