Reply #16: In 1982 [View All]

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If you weren't enrolled in college by the end of the school year (may or june of 1982) you did not get benefits. If you were enrolled in college it meant the next year you would get 75%, then 50% and then 25%. I think. That was my senior year of high school and dad was disabled. I ended up taking night classes my senior year of high school so I could keep some of the benefits through college.

Let me tell you, it REALLY sucked to be working 30 hours a week and going to both high school and college full time. But without the benefits college was going to be tough to afford.