3. In 1947, Congress established, within the Veterans Administration budget, the State
Approving Agencies to distribute the GI Bill funds to students on a state-wide basis
enrolling in higher learning institutions, non-degree vocational and technical schools, flight
schools, apprenticeship programs and other on-the-job training programs. Congress found
too much fraud and abuse in the next few years (for example, one notorious case was an
expensive training program with fees, living expenses and expensive equipment with one
student on a Midwest farm who was taught to operate a tractor).