VA to 'reset' efforts around new GI Bill housing stipend software
Summary
The Veterans Benefits Administration will “reset” its efforts to develop and deploy the software that was originally expected on July 16 of this year, the agency said in a press release .The current challenge s arose after the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, or Forever GI Bill , was signed into law by President Donald Trump in August 2017.Prime contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, called to testify at a hearing in the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity earlier this month, blamed the issues on the VA’s legacy IT environment.The VBA initially hoped to have the software deployed in time to process fall 2018 enrollments according to the requirements of the Forever GI Bill.By early November, as thoughts turned to enrollments for the spring 2019 semester, a working software solution still remained elusive.