You can call the VA @ 1-888-GI BILL 1 and hope you get through to a caseworker. Best bet is to start calling at 0759 EST. The VA offically opens for business at 0800 EST and their phone lines are immediately flooded for the rest of the day. Or you should be able to talk to you financial aid office. They should be able to tell you if anyone at your school has received benefits yet. I asked my financial aid guys yesterday. Only the guys that volunteered for the pilot program (all 4 of them) have been paid.
After you submitted your initial VONAPP application, did you receive something in the mail around August that said your application has been approved and that you needed to submit said paper to your financial aid office? If so, the government just gave your school an IOU for your tuition....meaning your school has to cut you some slack about late tuition payments, etc. It also means your BAH is coming...eventually.
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Oh, and I called the VA yesterday. They said that my paperwork that I submitted in June wasn't received until 31 Aug. They claim that SOP stipulates that everyone be paid within 6 weeks of submitting their paperwork. So I (and probably you) should get paid sometime around mid-late Oct.
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