Sailors’ feedback prompts change in Navy’s tuition assistance policy

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Sailors’ feedback prompts change in Navy’s tuition assistance policy
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, February 17, 2008

ARLINGTON, Va. — Sailors spoke and the Navy listened.

Now sailors with less than a year left in the Navy can once again get tuition assistance for higher education courses.

The move reverses one of the belt-tightening measures announced last year when the Navy restricted eligibility for its tuition assistance program, which provides sailors with up to $250 per credit hour for up to $4,500 per year.

At the time, the program had gone way over budget after the Navy increased the number of semester hours per fiscal year for which sailors could receive money from 12 to 16.

One of the changes was that sailors with less than 19 years of service and less than a year left before leaving the Navy could no longer receive tuition assistance.


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