DoD to restart stalled spouse tuition program

The Pentagon will resume the stalled My Career Advancement Accounts spouse education benefit program as of noon Saturday, restoring tuition benefits to 136,583 military spouses who had applied for and been enrolled in the program.
However, the MyCAA program will not accept new applicants at this point, Pentagon spokesman Marine Corps Col. Dave Lapan said Thursday. “This is the first step of how the department is going to address this program.”
Whether new applicants will be accepted at some point “remains to be seen,” Lapan said, adding that the Pentagon comptroller “is working hard to fund this program.”
The program provides up to $6,000 in tuition assistance to spouses for a variety of educational programs. Tuition payments were abruptly halted Feb. 16 “due to overwhelming demand,” Lapan said.
Military spouses found out about the shutdown just as they tried to request funding for classes that were to start within a month. They could not request payment for classes for which they had already registered.