Veteran Readiness & Employment Benefits (VR&E) Redesign

• Students enrolled in undergraduate programs will take advantage of Liberty University’s Inclusive Access system. Inclusive Access integrates digital books and resources into the course and comes at no additional charge to undergraduate students. (learn more about Inclusive Access here). This means that purchasing physical textbooks is not a requirement for undergraduate students. VR&E (Ch. 31) may only pay for required expenses, however VR&E counselors have flexibility to approve coverage for the cost of physical textbooks if a student has a preference for physical books or disability that can be accommodated by using physical text books. The VR&E counselor will need to communicate to Liberty University’s Military Affairs Office that they intend to pay for the cost of physical text books after acknowledging that these purchases are not required.
• Once this approval is received, students should visit the Liberty University Online Book Store to search for their textbooks and email vre@liberty.edu with the total cost of their purchase including any shipping and taxes. The Office of Military Affairs will then allocate the necessary book voucher funds to complete this purchase.
• **Please note that the Office of Military Affairs cannot guarantee the availability of any materials through the Online Book Store. Please reach out to the Online Bookstore customer support team for any inventory-related inquiries.

• Students enrolled in any Graduate or Doctoral level program will be automatically provided with VR&E book voucher funds to be used at our Online Book Store. Book Voucher funds are automatically allocated at $250.00 per course and are applied in one to three business days after Financial Check In is completed. Students are sent an automated email from the Online Book Store containing their book voucher code and instructions to use their book voucher funds. If additional funds are needed to complete the purchase of all required books, the total amount of book voucher funds can be increased accordingly by emailing vre@liberty.edu and requesting the additional amount needed to complete the purchase.
•  **As VR&E book vouchers are automatically provided upon completion of Financial Check In, students using VR&E benefits should not manually apply book voucher funds during the Financial Check In process as this may create an additional balance that may not be invoiced to your VR&E counselor

• Students attending residentially will obtain their books from our Barnes and Noble bookstore on campus and a separate authorization will need to be issued to the bookstore by your counselor. Please refer to the guidance listed in the following section, “How to use your VR&E (Ch. 31) Benefits to Purchase Materials”.

Students utilizing VR&E benefits may be approved to purchase school supplies including laptops, and other needed items. This is determined by counselors on a case-by-case basis. All questions regarding getting approval for material purchases should be directed to your counselor. If your counselor approves, they’ll need to issue an authorization for the items in the Tungsten Network to our campus bookstore directly. Your counselor may need the following information to create the authorization:

Service Provider Name: Barnes & Noble Education
Payable To: Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC.
Service Provider Email: sm330@bncollege.com
Federal Tax ID: 46-0599018
Facility Code: Your counselor may email ipps.vbaco@va.gov if this information is required.

You should have access to your funds within 24 hours of your counselor submitting the authorization. Please note that the Office of Military Affairs is only able to view authorizations for tuition and fees and cannot confirm receipt of authorizations submitted directly to our bookstore. For assistance or troubleshooting in completing a purchase with our campus book store after your counselor has submitted the authorization, you may reach out to our book store directly at sm330@bncollege.com or by calling (434) 582-2316.

Note: If the amount of materials needed is more than $50.00, the student will need to email the bookstore at sm330@bncollege.com prior to placing an order to have the amount available for purchase adjusted.”

Liberty University can only facilitate the purchase of items available through our online bookstore, BNC Virtual. The purchase of books or other materials through outside vendors would need to be arranged between you and your counselor directly.