One limit, many pages: who has updated, who has not.

We run the California Veteran Education Observatory, a public research desk at The Veteran Benefit Desk that audits how the College Fee Waiver is published across the state.

As of August 26, 2026, the College Fee Waiver page at calvet.ca.gov shows two different Plan B income limits at the same time. The Notes section announces $22,941 for academic year 2026-27, while the Eligibility tab still displays $22,273 for academic year 2025-26.

A family reading only the Eligibility tab could wrongly conclude that a student earning between $22,274 and $22,941 is ineligible and never apply.

We publish a public tracker of every audited page that carries an income figure, including this one. We would be glad to mark the Eligibility tab current as soon as it is updated, and we log all responses publicly.

We run the California Veteran Education Observatory, a public research desk at The Veteran Benefit Desk that audits how the College Fee Waiver is published across all 58 counties.

As of August 26, 2026, your Cal Vet College Tuition Fee Waiver page still lists the Plan B income limit as $22,273 for academic year 2025-26. CalVet's program page announces the academic year 2026-27 limit as $22,941 in its Notes section.

A student whose prior year income falls between $22,274 and $22,941 qualifies under the current limit but could self-screen out after reading the older figure.

Your page is otherwise one of the strongest county fee waiver pages we audited, with full plan language, three published intake channels, and the appeal route. We publish a public tracker of every audited page that carries an income figure, and we would be glad to mark yours current as soon as it is updated. We log all responses publicly.

We run the California Veteran Education Observatory, a public research desk at The Veteran Benefit Desk. We are sharing this with the association because it documents the work county offices do on one benefit, and it may be useful for the Communicator.

We independently verified how all 58 County Veterans Service Offices publish College Fee Waiver application intake, each page loaded and content-checked with a retrieval date. The map is public, free to cite, and downloadable as a CSV.

What it shows: 46 of 58 county pages mention the fee waiver, 17 publish specific intake channels for it (walk in, email, fax, mail, online, or appointment), and 5 counties publish online submission (Riverside, Solano, Stanislaus, Fresno, and Marin). It also documents strong county pages other offices can learn from, including San Diego's four published channels and San Luis Obispo's full plan language.

One caution the association may want to circulate: the Plan B income limit for academic year 2026-27 is $22,941, but CalVet's Eligibility tab and at least one county page still display the prior year figure of $22,273. Counties can check their own entry on the map, and corrections are welcome through the issue form there.