Checklist For Requesting Licensing
Checklist for Requesting
Licensing & Certification Test
Reimbursement
To apply for test reimbursement, send us
a signed and dated request with the
following information:
Your Full Name
Your Mailing Address
Your Home Phone Number (with area
code)
Your Social Security Number
Your VA File Number (if different from
your Social Security Number)
Have you applied for VA benefits
before? If no, please complete an
application for education benefits and
send with this request for
reimbursement.
Name of Test
Date Test Taken
Cost of Test (NOTE: We can’t
reimburse you for registration fees,
preparation guides, processing fees,
etc.)
A copy of your test results or a copy of
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your license or certification
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Affairs
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Name & Address of Organization
0
Issuing License
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Statement: “I hereby authorize the
release of my test information to the
Pays the Costs of a License or
Department of Veterans Affairs”
Your Signature and Date Signed
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Certification Test
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Send this information for each test you
December 2005
take.
Having a license or certification can open
What Do I Have To Do?
results or a copy of your license or
doors for you in today’s workplace. Many
Step 1
Apply for education benefits. If
certification if you have them.
professions require a license or
you’ve previously applied for
certification. A license or certification may
education benefits, you don’t
How Do I Find Which Tests Are
also be required for jobs that are subject to
need to apply again. Go to step
Approved?
State or other government regulations.
2.
To find out which tests are approved, visit
Licensing and/or certification may play a
If you’ve never applied before,
our Internet site:
key role in advancing your career in jobs
you can complete and submit
www.GIBILL.va.gov/Education/LCweb/search.asp
such as a mechanic, medical technician,
your application on-line. Just go
therapist, computer network engineer, web
If you can’t find your test, you should still
to www.GIBILL.va.gov and click
site developer, and others. By certification,
apply for education benefits. Your test may
on Electronic Application Form.
we mean the certification you get by taking
be approved but not appear on the list.
Step 2
Apply for reimbursement. See
a specific test for a field of employment, not
the next section below.
a certificate you receive for completing
How Much Can I Receive?
training.
How Do I Apply For Reimbursement?
You can receive reimbursement of up to
$2,000 per test but not more than the VA
If you’re eligible, the Department of
To apply for test reimbursement, send us a
approved cost of the test. You may receive
Veterans Affairs (VA) can reimburse you for
signed and dated request with the following
benefits to retake a test you didn’t pass.
taking a license or certification test. The
information. A checklist is provided on the
You may receive benefits to retake a test
test must be approved for VA purposes.
back of this pamphlet. You must give this
you passed if the test is required for
Generally we must receive your request
information for each test taken.
recertification or to allow you to retain a
within on year of when you took the test.
• Your name, address and Social
license you already have.
For more information about these
Security number or VA claim number
programs, visit our Internet site:
• The name of the test you took and the
You must be eligible for benefits in order to
www.GIBILL.va.gov
date you took it
receive test reimbursement. Your total
• A copy of each test results for each test
months of benefits will be reduced each
You may receive reimbursement for
taken, whether or not you passed it
time you receive reimbursement for a
approved licensing and certification tests if
• The name and address of the
licensing or certification test.
you qualify for:
organization issuing the license or
• Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB), or
certificate (not necessarily the
Who Can I Contact if I Have Questions?
• Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserves
organization that administered the test)
If you have questions about licensing and
(MGIB-SR) (Public Law 109-163
• The cost of each test.
certification reimbursement, or applying for
enacted January 6, 2006)
NOTE: We can’t reimburse you for
benefits, you can
• Reserve Education Assistance Program
registration fees, preparation guides,
• Go to our Internet site:
(REAP) (Public Law 109-163 enacted
processing fees, etc.
www.GIBILL.va.gov, and click on “Ask
January 6, 2006)
• This statement: “I authorize release of
a Question and Find Answers”
• Veterans Educational Assistance
my test information to VA.”
• Call us at 1-888-GIBILL-1
Program (VEAP), or
• Your signature and date signed.
(1-888-442-4551), or for the hearing-
• Dependents Educational Assistance
Regardless of whether you use the
impaired call 1-800-829-4833.
(DEA)
checklist provided or send us a statement,
you should attach a copy of your test
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