On Education Benefits:
Approximately $100 billion were provided in new aid to nearly 10 million postsecondary students and their families during the 2007-2008 school year.

The maximum Pell Grant award for the 2008-09 award year (July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009) is $4,731. For the 2009-10 award year (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010), the maximum award is $5,350.

Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants will range from $100 to $4,000.


On Labor and Employee Benefits, as of March 2008:
Sixty-one percent (61%) of private industry employees had access to paid retirement benefits compared with 89% of State and local government employees.

Medical care benefits were available to 71% of private industry workers, compared with 87% among government workers.

Virtually all full-time employees in State and local government had access to retirement and medical benefits: 99 and 98%, respectively.In private industry, only 71% of full-time workers had access to retirement benefits and 85% to medical care.


On Veterans' Benefits:
Approximately 76% of service-connected disable veterans participating in the vocational rehabilitation and employment program have successfully completed their courses. (This program provides disabled veterans with the skills and opportunities to obtain employment or gain greater independence in daily living.)

VA´s direct involvement helped 52.4% of the veterans who otherwise could have lost their homes through foreclosure by assisting them with steps to retain ownership of their homes or at least significantly reducing their financial hardship by helping them sell their homes.

More than 12% or approximately $1.3 billion of VA´s total procurement obligations were directed to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. This accomplishment ranked VA first among all Federal agencies in this area.


On Business Resources:
In FY 2008, the SBA Investment Division assisted approximately 2,000 small businesses with over $2.2 billion of capital.

In FY 2008 the SBA, through its Office of International Trade, approved over 3,000 loan guaranties to support small business exporters; trained over 3,200 lenders; counseled over 2,800 lenders; trained over 6,300 small businesses; and counseled over 4,500 small businesses.

Also in FY 2008, SBA guaranteed 6,055 bonds. As a result, $538 million in contract revenue has been generated for small businesses, and approximately 5,075 jobs have been created.

Sources:
http://www.ed.gov/
National Compensation Survey
http://www.va.gov/
http://www.sba.gov/