The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case that could make 1.7 million post-9/11 veterans eligible for additional education benefits potentially worth billions of dollars.
The case is about whether a veteran who qualifies for education benefits under multiple GI Bill programs is required to use up or abandon the benefits of one program in order to take advantage of benefits under another.
The justices agreed to hear the case, Rudisill v. McDonough (court file 22-888), in an unsigned order issued in the final days of the court’s recent session that wrapped up on June 30. The court did not explain its decision. No justices dissented. Oral arguments in the case are expected in the court’s new term that begins in October….