<prompt> Human: i need to know if theres anything at all my boyfriend can do about this.my boyfriend did two tours in iraq so his college expenses wereare paid for by the G.I. bill. however, at the time that he was attending college fall 2010 they had a crappy system set up to where he had to pay his tuition in full first and then they reimbursed him tuition and room and board. he had been attending school for a year and a half and was one semester away from receiving his associates degree. however, he wasnt doing well in his spanish class because he hates spanish class and was working full-time as well. also, his major was spanish because the G.I. bill only covers certain degrees ridiculous. so he drops out, and thats the end of that.summer 2011 comes and we move across the country.now, its spring 2012, still living across the country. someone from the VAs office called his phone a couple weeks ago and told him that he has a debt that is about to go into collections and he needs to take care of it right away. he was shocked because he never received anything in the mail telling him that he has a debt and i know this is fact because i check the mail as well and have never noticed anything urgent. apparently they have been sending these collections notices to his ex-wifes house they divorced and he moved out spring 2010. he filled out a temporary change of address form good for 90 days after he moved out, so he receives most of his mail. somehow the federal government couldnt track him down, though, until now. he set up a payment plan as soon as they called him. well, now theyve taken his refund. we need that refund. im in graduate school and i have no income. im even listed as a dependent on his 1040.TL;DR: my boyfriend was reimbursed using the G.I. bill but dropped out of school. we didnt even think that he would have to pay that back because we dont see the G.I. bill as a loan it does make sense to us, though. they were sending collections letters to the wrong address for over a year even though he filled out a change of address form. now they took his refund. what can we do? anything? nothing? help.  <response>: Im a military spouse, and Ive never heard of the GI Bill only covering certain degrees. I know veterans in all sorts of fields using GI Bill money social sciences, sciences, liberal arts, fine artsIt kind of sounds to me like your boyfriend isnt telling you the whole story. All military-related money you get has to be paid back if you fuck up in school unless you can make a really good and timely case about why you fucked up. That goes for military spouse scholarships as well. I even had to take an assessment where I acknowledged that I knew I had to pay the money back if I dropped out or failed to get my scholarship.It seems unlikely to me that he did not know about this. 