The website that shows its work

The website is both a distribution point and a collection point. It carries the book, the charts and the app to the families who use them, and it collects what readers find.

The rules come from the official sources

The rules belong to the law, VA and the Department of Defense, and every page defers to them. The work is collecting, cataloging and organizing many official sources at once, so they read as one coherent whole.

The Order Matters, College Tool and the reference charts start from the source documents behind a defined set of benefit combinations: the law, VA's regulations, and the published guidance of VA and the Department of Defense. Those sources are held in one register, where every change is tracked, reviewed against its official text, and carried into the book, the app and the charts. Corrections, and each new edition of the book and the charts, are emailed to everyone who signs up, so a chart on a wall or a saved copy is replaced when it should be. The set of combinations and functions grows where readers' suggestions show the need.

Every page shows its date

The date at the bottom of every page opens its Edition record: the current edition of each publication, and when it last changed. The record uses four words, each with one meaning.

• Updated: the date the content of the page last changed.
• Revised: the date the current edition of a file was issued.
• Published: the date the current version of College Tool was released on the App Store and Google Play.
• Checked: the date each official source was last reviewed against its official text.

From the same record, a reader can ask for an email with each correction and each new edition of The Order Matters or the reference charts, one or both. That email is the time to replace a chart on a wall or refresh a saved or hosted copy. A link to wegotyou1776.com stays current on its own. A confirmation comes first, and every notice carries a one-click unsubscribe.

What is checked, and when

How We Keep This Current lists the current edition of each publication with its month, and what is watched. Rates and rules move on their own schedules, set by VA, the Department of Defense, Congress and the Federal Register. Each one is tracked against its official source: when it usually changes, and when it last did. The list covers the Post-9/11 GI Bill® rates, the Chapter 35 (DEA) rates, the housing rates drawn from the Department of Defense's Basic Allowance for Housing, the law in Title 38 of the U.S. Code, VA's regulations in Title 38 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and the Department of Defense's policy for transferring Post-9/11 GI Bill months, along with any change to a VA or Department of Defense page a source rests on.

The book, College Tool and the reference charts are brought current at least once a year against VA's rules and rates, with changes between as needed. The site's PDF and EPUB show the date they were last revised, and every official source they use is listed in one place at wegotyou1776.com/sources.

An open channel

Each page ends with the ask that fits it: something that does not match its official source, a rule or a feature College Tool should cover, how the book was used. Each opens a short form that goes straight to the developer, so anyone who notices anything on any product has a clear way to send a correction. Each report is checked against the official source it names, and what does not match is corrected.

The input of subject matter experts carries the most weight, and no credential is required to be heard. Being open to anyone catches what an expert might miss. Every submission is looked at.

The Order Matters has been read by people who know these benefits from every side: Veterans who earned them, spouses and children who used them, and School Certifying Officials, university Veterans offices and college advisers, who apply the rules for a living. Every reader is invited to send input on anything that no longer matches its official source. The October 2026 edition carries input from a state education official.

Listed and cataloged

Public libraries have cataloged The Order Matters under both Veterans benefits law and personal finance, and these resource lists carry it:

• At the top of the Resource Links page at Vets for Vets Resource Commissary, an association of Veterans helping Veterans find resources and community, November 2026
• Popular on Veterans Directory (veteransdirectory.org), free Veteran transition resources from Salute Veterans Inc., for the book and College Tool, November 2026
• MERLOT (merlot.org), the California State University system’s library of free teaching materials
• Jump$tart Clearinghouse (jumpstartclearinghouse.org), a database of curated financial education resources from the Jump$tart Coalition, a nonprofit

College Tool is listed in ISTE’s Learning Technology Directory, the EdTech Index.

Where to see it

How we keep this current

Sources and official references

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