Verify Your Enrollment and Attendance for Monthly Payments.
To verify enrollment, the following options are available:
- Text: To verify via text, beneficiaries can opt-in when they begin using their benefits to receive a monthly text message from VA to confirm their enrollment. This is the fastest way for students to verify their enrollment and receive their payments.
- Email: If beneficiaries choose not to opt into text verification, they will receive monthly enrollment verification messages by email.
- Online: Chapter 35 beneficiaries can verify their enrollment through our online tool.
- Ask VA: Beneficiaries can verify through Ask VA by sending a message with their enrollment dates via Ask VA. This is a manual process. Therefore, payment will be five to seven days once the message is formally reviewed, not from when the beneficiary submits the Ask VA message.
If a beneficiary had previously opted out and would like to change their enrollment verification method to text or email, they can call the Education Call Center (ECC) at 888-442-4551, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT, Monday through Friday.
To make sure students receive updates on enrollment verification requirements, and to have access to text and email verification methods, VA recommends that beneficiaries review and, if needed, update their personal contact information, including email address, mailing address, and mobile phone number. Beneficiaries can update their contact information in their VA.gov profile, through Ask VA, or by calling the ECC.