President Barack Obama has signed into law the 2009 Supplemental Appropriations bill that extends GI Bill benefits to the children of fallen soldiers. The bill changes the current law and expands grants to survivors of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The new benefit, known as the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship in honor of a fallen soldier with three young children, will take effect on Aug. 1, 2009. The law will allow children of those who have died while on active duty since 9/11 to use benefits that could have been transferred to them if their military parent had lived.
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