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Verify your school enrollment

Find out how to verify your enrollment each month if you’re using any of these education benefits: Post-9/11 GI Bill, Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty, Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve, or the STEM Scholarship.

Are you using Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance (DEA or Chapter 35) benefits and need to verify your enrollment? Find out how to verify enrollment for DEA

Verify your enrollment online 

You can verify your enrollment online if you’re using any of these benefits:

  • Post-9/11 GI Bill
  • Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty
  • Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve 

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 

For Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits

If you’re getting VA education benefits through the Post-9/11 GI Bill, you can sign in to verify your enrollment online using our tool. 

For Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty and Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve

If you’re getting VA education benefits through the Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty (MGIB-AD) or the Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve (MGIB-SR), you can verify your enrollment online using our tool.

You can also update this information:

  • Your contact information for MGIB-AD and MGIB-SR benefits
  • Your direct deposit information for MGIB-AD and MGIB-SR benefits

Other ways to verify your enrollment

If you don’t want to verify your enrollment online, or if you’re using the STEM Scholarship, you can verify a different way.

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.

If you need to update your phone number, or if you don’t want to verify your enrollment by text anymore, call us at . We’re here Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.

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.

Note: If you’re using the STEM Scholarship, you can’t verify your enrollment by email.

Online through Ask VA

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  (TTY: 711). We’re here Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.

How to contact us if you have questions

You can contact us online through Ask VA.

Contact us online through Ask VA

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