Adams County Veteran Service Office

The Adams County Veteran Service Office is the county veterans service office every Colorado county must run under C.R.S. 28-5-801; see the Colorado entry. It sits in Human Services' Community Connections division and helps Adams County residents who served, widows of veterans and veterans' dependents obtain the VA benefits they may be eligible for, free of charge. What it files. Service-connected disability compensation and the claims process behind it, the needs-based VA pension, Dependency and Indemnity Compensation and survivors pension, burial benefits (allowance, flag, headstone or marker, Presidential Memorial Certificate), education benefits and VA health care enrollment. Bring the DD-214 or equivalent and any non-VA medical records. Where. The service officer, Drew Dixon (720-523-2773; [email protected]), sees clients by appointment at Human Services' main office, 11860 Pecos Street, Westminster. Up to twice a month, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., there are walk-in hours at the same building; bring proof of Colorado residency and a DD-214. The page says those drop-ins are served by an Arapahoe County officer, not the Adams office. The shared officer. Under an intergovernmental agreement that began as a one-year pilot, Adams and Arapahoe Counties share one service officer placed near the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System hospital in Aurora, with the City of Aurora supplying the office equipment. Arapahoe employs the officer and Adams pays half, up to $40,000; the Board approved the agreement's first amendment, renewing it, on September 30, 2025. Arapahoe's own office is in the Arapahoe County entry. Veterans Advisory Commission. The Board created the Commission in 2017 (Resolution 2017-608) to advise it on veterans' issues. Since September 23, 2025 it has nine voting members who live in the county: six veterans from the public and three who are serving in the armed forces, Guard or Reserve in Colorado or are family members, including surviving spouses, of service members or veterans. A County Commissioner no longer sits on it.