The Dependents' Educational Assistance (Chapter 35) provides education and training opportunities to eligible dependents of veterans who are permanently disabled due to a service-related condition or eligible dependents of veterans who died while on active duty or due to a service-related condition.
In order to be eligible to receive a Hazlewood Act Exemption, a veteran must demonstrate that he or she was a Texas resident at the time of entry into military service, entered the service in the State of Texas, or declared Texas as his/her Home of Record at the time of entry as indicated on his/her DD214.
Veterans who are rated 100% due to service connected disability or in receipt of 100% compensation due to a grant of individual unemployability are entitled to an exemption from taxation of the total appraised value of the Veteran's residence homestead.
The Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program (VMSDEP) provides educational assistance, for a maximum of 8 semesters of tuition and fees, to spouses and children of military service members killed, missing in action, taken prisoner, or who became at least 90 percent disabled as a result of military ...
The program offers dependents up to 45 months of education benefits, which may be used for degree and certificate programs, apprenticeship, and on-the-job training. In addition, spouses may take a correspondence course. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances.