College tuition for WWI decendents

I live in Illinois, but this is a federal question.

I heard that if you are a decendent of a WWI veteran, Congress passed a law shortly after WWI was over that stated anyone who was a decendent of a WWI veteran was entitiled to free in-state collge tuition. That means all of his or her children, grandchildren, greatgranchildren and so on are qualified for free college tuition as long as they go to a school that is in the state where they reside.

Is this true?

Contact your local elected official's office and have them check with the Congressional office. It may be a bill pendng.

That would be one expensive program.

My response:

Yes, it's called Junior College.

IAAL

lawrat said:

Contact your local elected official's office and have them check with the Congressional office. It may be a bill pendng.

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Thank you Lawrat for responding. I'm going to call my attorney and see what he can dig up. This would have been legislated around eight years ago. If it is true, you can see why the colleges conveniently decide not to mention it to all applicants. Then you would have to go through a mountain of paperwork to prove you were a descendent, but it would be worth it in the end.

Take care,
Caspers

LegalBeagle said:

That would be one expensive program.

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Thank you LegalBeagle.

If the legislation was passed in the '20's, it wouldn't have been that expensive since a very small percentage of people went on to higher education in that era.

Anyway, take care and don't work too hard.

caspers said:

Thank you Lawrat for responding. I'm going to call my attorney and see what he can dig up. This would have been legislated around eight years ago. If it is true, you can see why the colleges conveniently decide not to mention it to all applicants. Then you would have to go through a mountain of paperwork to prove you were a descendent, but it would be worth it in the end.

Take care,
Caspers

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Typographical error. Eighty years ago instead of eight years ago.
Anyway, I'll let everyone know what I found out when I find out.