Florida waives tuition, matriculation and registration fees for a total of 120 credit hours if your spouse or parent was killed in the line of duty. You can use the waiver full time or part time at a state career center, a Florida College System institution or a state university, toward a career certificate or an undergraduate or postgraduate degree. Children can use it until their 25th birthday. A surviving spouse has to start using it within five years of the death and can keep using it until the 10th anniversary of the death.
Contact the educational institution you plan to attend. There is no central state application.
The service member’s DD1300 Report of Casualty listing you, and proof of your relationship such as a marriage certificate or birth certificate.
