VA Rules and Regulations

The VA has established a series of rules and regulations governing the administration of VA education benefits. This page details how these regulations affect you, as a student receiving VA education benefits.

Enrollment Certifications

Each term the IHCC Veterans Affairs Office will certify your enrollment status to the VA. Your status will generally be based on the number of semester hours of credit for which you are enrolled on the day after the "add/drop" date for each term. ***IMPORTANT: At the end of each month, you will be required to self-certify that the enrollment status certified by the Veterans Affairs Office has not changed.***

For a course and its associated credit hours to be certifiable to the VA, the course must meet graduation requirements in the program of study on file with the VA. For example, if, when you applied for education benefits, you indicated on your application that your program was going to be Aviation Maintenance Technology, only those courses that are required for graduation in the Aviation Maintenance Technology program will be certifiable to the VA.

Also, courses for which you have previously received a passing grade (even those not taken at IHCC) are not certifiable.

Be sure to check with the Veterans Affairs Office if you decide to re-take a course or take any courses in addition to or instead of your program degree requirements.

Change of Program

If you change your program of study at IHCC, you must file a change of program request with the VA. You will need complete a Change of Program or Place of Training form, which is available in the IHCC Veterans Affairs Office.

Satisfactory Academic Progress/Academic Probation

The VA requires that all students receiving VA education benefits maintain satisfactory academic progress. IHCC defines satisfactory academic progress as achieving a 2.00 grade point average (GPA) each term of enrollment. I fyou fail to achieve a 2.00 GPA in a term, you will be place on academic probation for your next term of enrollment. If you fail to achieve a 2.00 GPA during your probationary term, your VA education benefits will be terminated.

Your VA education benefits may be reinstated through counseling to determine the cause of your unsatisfactory progress or by proving that there is a reasonable likelihood that you will make satisfactory academic progress in the future.