Benefits charts, free to print.
Reference charts on how VA education benefits add up, for anywhere military families could see them: a school’s Veterans office, a student Veterans center, a JROTC classroom or a Purple Star school. The official sources are listed on each chart, and the files here are the current versions.
These charts are an independent reference, not an official source. They summarize the official sources they list and cannot cover every case, so use them as a starting point for your plan. VA decides eligibility and benefits: confirm your plan with VA and your School Certifying Official, and read the sources that apply to you.
How will you print?
Pick the printer you have. Each button is one file with everything in it.
Full-size charts
Every chart at the size you print, in one file. A school poster printer, a campus print center or any print shop can run them.
The letter packet
Everything re-set for 8.5 x 11 paper, readable in black and white. For a handout, a meeting, or a review. Each section starts on its own page.
One page to pin up
The whole chart on one 8.5 x 11 sheet, with both QR codes and its official sources. Made for a bulletin board or a front desk.
Or pick one chart
Tap a chart to open it, or save it at the size you want.
What the charts cover
How many months of school each VA education benefit can pay for, and the limits when a family uses more than one.
- Post-9/11 GI Bill, Chapter 33: up to 36 months, including months a service member transfers to a spouse or child, and the Fry Scholarship.
- Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance, Chapter 35 (DEA): up to 36 months, or 45 if school started before August 1, 2018.
- Montgomery GI Bill, Active Duty (Chapter 30) and Selected Reserve (Chapter 1606): up to 36 months each.
- Veteran Readiness and Employment, Chapter 31: up to 48 months.
- Used together: Chapters 33, 30 and 1606 stop at 48 months combined, and Chapter 35 with them is capped at 81 months in all. After a death on or after August 1, 2011, a survivor chooses Fry or DEA, or uses both only when DEA comes from a different event, up to 48 months together.
- How a family qualifies for both: transferred months or the Fry Scholarship for Chapter 33, and for Chapter 35, a parent VA has found permanently and totally disabled by a service-connected disability, or who died of one or in the line of duty.
These are the main ways to qualify and the usual month limits, not all of them; VA has other, less common ones and decides what applies. One sheet is for families, one for those who served, and the full chart carries both. The charts cite their official sources, from VA.gov to 38 CFR 21.4020 and 38 U.S.C. 3695.
Printing
- Print at actual size, 100 percent, not “fit to page.”
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- The letter packet and the one-page sheet are white, for any office printer, in color or black and white.
Always the current version
These files were checked on 29 September 2026. Rules and rates change, so every chart lists its official sources and the date it was checked, and when a rule changes, the file here changes with it. Free to print and share unchanged, not for resale or changes, under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Spotted something that needs a correction? Tell us in the box below.
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