If your parent’s official home of record and residence is Mississippi and that parent is officially a prisoner of war or missing in action, you can receive an eight-semester scholarship at any Mississippi state-supported college or university. Tuition is covered. You still pay for books, food, school supplies, and extracurricular dues or fees.
Contact Mississippi Veterans Affairs or the admissions and financial-aid office at the Mississippi public college or university you will attend. Ask them to apply the POW/MIA children’s scholarship under Miss. Code Ann. § 37-108-1.
Proof that the service member’s home of record and residence is Mississippi, and official documentation that the service member is a prisoner of war or missing in action.
