Claiming it was an “arbitrary, capricious” attack on aviation flight schools, Klamath Community College is suing the federal government for dispute of more than $1.2 million in veteran tuition payments that has already cost the university roughly $75,000.
The community college in Klamath Falls is suing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on claims that earlier this fall the U.S. Treasury began withholding roughly $37,000 per month over Trump-era disputes over covering aviation training programs through the G.I. Bill, according to a lawsuit filed late last month in U.S. District Court in Medford.
The lawsuit alleges that starting in 2017, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs used a combination of false statements, mixed messages, incorrect paperwork and “impossible to decipher” alleged discrepancies to dispute tuition payments for veteran students in the program — even for years the VA had already approved the payments.
KCC is one of four Oregon community colleges that offer flight programs such as aviation instruction for airplane and helicopter pilots.
The college claims that a wave of VA audits on the program correlated with a Trump administration cost-cutting proposal that targeted aviation training programs as part of the president’s 2017 fiscal budget.
The White House couldn’t get congressional support for cutting aviation-training programs from the budget passed in October 2017. Instead, the lawsuit claims, the VA “devised a scheme to limit veterans’ benefits...
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