WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee members – U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and U.S. Representatives Barry Moore (R-Ala.) and David Trone (D-Md.) – introduced legislation to expand in-state tuition eligibility for the families of veterans who die from service-connected disabilities.

The Survivors’ and Dependents’ Education Assistance (DEA) program provides educational benefits to survivors of veterans who died from a service-connected disability. While any veteran, servicemember or survivor qualifying for the Fry Scholarship, or any dependent using transferred entitlement under the Post 9/11 GI Bill, is eligible for in-state tuition at any state school in the country, DEA recipients are currently excluded by law from receiving the same in-state tuition benefit.

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