{"id":48481,"date":"2014-02-12T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=48481"},"modified":"2014-02-12T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T12:04:00","slug":"latta-urges-veterans-to-use-va-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/02\/12\/latta-urges-veterans-to-use-va-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta urges veterans to use VA website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) encourages Ohio veterans to utilize a <a href=\"http:\/\/department-of-veterans-affairs.github.io\/gi-bill-comparison-tool\/\">website<\/a>\u00a0recently launched by the Department of Veterans Affairs and several other agencies to help them calculate how far their Post-9\/11 GI Benefits will go toward paying for college.<\/p>\n<p>The website provides information, such as graduation rates, default rates and average student loan rates, for colleges and universities throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur nation\u2019s heroes have made significant sacrifices in service to this country and deserve every resource available to assist them in making a seamless transition to the civilian workforce upon their return home,\u201d said Latta. \u201cThis website provides a one-stop shop for veterans to access important information regarding colleges and universities and how their benefits can be applied to make their education aspirations, and ultimately future career goals, more attainable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI commend the VA for its work in establishing this website, and I encourage Ohio\u2019s veterans and service members alike to take advantage of this website and the valuable information it provides,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) encourages Ohio veterans to utilize a website\u00a0recently launched by the Department of Veterans Affairs and several other agencies to help them calculate how far their Post-9\/11 GI Benefits will go toward paying for college. The website provides information, such as graduation rates, default rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 11:36:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}