Attorney General Jason Miyares and the State of Virginia have sued the Department of Veterans Affairs to require them to honor veterans’ education benefits.

The suit, joined by co-plaintiffs Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America as well as individual veterans alleges the department has failed to abide by a 2024 Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing qualifying veterans their full educational benefits.

James Rudisill, an army veteran who won his case last year before the Supreme Court, is one of the plaintiffs. (RELATED: Virginia AG Statistics Shock: Previous Administration Caused Crime Spike)

“Veterans who qualify for benefits should receive their full benefits — full stop,” Miyares said in a statement. “Despite the Supreme Court’s clear holding, however, the VA has continued to take a cramped reading of the GI Bills, denying benefits to large swaths of qualified veterans.”

Miyares’ office represented Rudisill in his previous case, winning before the Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision. The VA has used a narrow limit reading of the Montgomery and Post 9/11 GI Bills to deny additional earned benefits to veterans.

If unchallenged, Miyares claims that the VA’s limits would put added stress on the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program. He also says that reduced federal benefits would put undue strain on state support for students and veterans negatively impact the Commonwealth’s resources.

Families impacted include a Virginia Army veteran who served deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo who was denied his full GI Bill education benefits transferring to his daughter and a retired US Air Force colonel who was denied benefits for his son’s education.

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