VA Student Withdrawals

As required by the VA, School Certifying Officials monitor student enrollment and report class withdrawals throughout the semester.

The VA will not pay benefits towards classes that students do not complete. Therefore, withdrawing from a class or classes may create a student debt to the VA. The VA may automatically reduce the debt amount for your first withdrawal while using VA education benefits. Subsequent withdrawals will incur the full debt amount.

Students who never attend or stop attending a class and do not formally withdraw will also incur debts to the VA. Professors report last dates of attendance and non-attendance at the end of the term. Once received, this information is reported to the VA.

Ch. 33 Post 9/11 and Ch. 31 VR&E students:

Please contact your School Certifying Official for withdrawal debt information and the required Withdrawal Permission form. You will not be able to withdraw from classes on your own.

The VA goes through the school to collect the tuition part of a withdrawal debt because those funds were paid to the school on your behalf. Once notified of the debt amount for tuition by the VA, the Bursar’s office will then email the student with the amount due.