You can receive $500 a year for four years of college or equivalent training if your parent died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, died from a service-connected disability, or was declared missing in action.
Contact the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Veterans Benefits Bureau at 609-530-6949 or vbb@dva.nj.gov to apply.
Documentation of your parent’s death in service, death from a service-connected disability, or missing in action status, proof of your relationship to them, proof your parent was a New Jersey resident, and proof you have lived in New Jersey for at least a year.
