Verify Your School Enrollment | Veterans Affairs

If you’re using Post-9/11 GI Bill or Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) benefits, you can verify your enrollment for school or training on VA.gov. If you’re getting benefits through the STEM

Scholarship, you can verify your enrollment by text or email. Keep reading to find out how to verify your enrollment based on which benefit you’re using. 

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

We’ll ask you to verify these 2 details about your enrollment:

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.

Note: When you verify your enrollment by text instead of email, you may get your housing payments faster. If you need to update your phone number, call us at 888-442-4551. We’re here Monday

through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.

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.

You can verify your enrollment through Ask VA. In your message, be sure to include the dates of your enrollment in school or training. 

Call us at 888-442-4551 (TTY: 711). We’re here Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.

If you’re getting VA education benefits through Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty or Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve, you can verify your enrollment online using our tool.

If you’re just getting started and haven’t received MGIB benefits yet, you may be able to verify your enrollment by text or email. We’ll tell you in your award letter if either of these ways

to verify are available to you or if you’ll need to verify online.

Note: If you’re already receiving MGIB benefits, you can’t switch from verifying your enrollment online to verifying using text or email.

You’ll need to verify your enrollment each month for the Edith Nourse Rogers Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) Scholarship in 1 of these 2 ways:

We’ll send you a text asking if you want to get messages through our STEMText service. If you choose to get texts from us, we’ll send you a message each month by text asking you to verify

your enrollment. 

Note: When you verify your enrollment by text instead of email, you may get your housing payments faster. If you need to update your phone number, call us at 888-442-4551. We’re here Monday

through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.

You’ll need to email us each month with the dates of your enrollment in school or training. 

Or call us at 888-442-4551 (TTY: 711). We’re here Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.