"A month after the president signed into law a bill that sharply expanded veterans' tuition benefits, Congress has passed another measure with education benefits for student veterans and their families," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "Among the new benefits it contains are provisions that would make it easier for veterans to re-enroll in college upon returning from active duty, and ease the process of applying for a discharge of a federal student loan in cases of 'total and permanent disability.' Under the bill, colleges would be required to readmit veterans at the same academic status in which they left, provided veterans give advance notice of their deployments and are not absent from the institution for more than five years, cumulatively."