Antelope County Veterans’ Service Office

Antelope County’s Veterans’ Service Office in the Old Courthouse at Neligh, open Monday to Wednesday under Veterans’ Service Officer Tom Nelson, handles claims, burial benefits, plates, Veterans’ Home and aid applications, places flag holders in the county’s cemeteries and keeps a public calendar of veterans events; the Board resolved against LB1072 in March 2026.

Also called: veterans service office, CVSO, Tom Nelson, Thomas Nelson, Veterans Service Committee, flag holders, Operation Green Light, veterans picnic, VetraSpec, LB 1072, Neligh, Elgin, Tilden, Oakdale, Orchard, Clearwater, Brunswick, Royal.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.

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Antelope County, NECounty

The office. The Antelope County Veterans' Service Office is in the Old Courthouse, 501 Main Street, Neligh, NE 68756, phone (402) 887-4936, [email protected], open 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday to Wednesday and "available with a phone call". The Veterans' Service Officer is Tom Nelson, whom the Board re-appointed for 2026 on January 13, 2026. The page says the office "processes all aspects of veterans claims, burial benefits, licenses, plates and veterans home applications and veterans aid applications at all levels federal, state & county", issues flag holders for veterans buried in the county's cemeteries, and gives a Veterans Benefits brief on request; it is "overseen and funded by the Veterans Service Committee and the Antelope County Commissioners". The calendar. The page keeps the office's year in public: flag holders placed in the county's cemeteries on May 8, the Antelope County Veterans Picnic in Clearwater on June 17, the Veteran Service Committee meeting on June 24, the Veteran Mission of Mercy dental clinic in Yutan on August 28 and 29, the Women Veterans Symposium in Kearney in September, and Operation Green Light for Veterans from November 4 to 9, 2026. It also flags the State's motor vehicle tax exemption for disabled veterans from January 1, 2026 (see the Nebraska entries). The Board's year. The Board renewed the Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs' VetraSpec memorandum on November 4, 2025 at Mr. Nelson's request. On March 10, 2026 Mr. Nelson presented a resolution opposing LB1072, the proposal to take $5,000,000 from the Nebraska Veterans' Aid Fund, and the Board signed it 5-0. On October 7, 2025 it approved a $1,750.00 county improvement grant, recommended by the Antelope County Visitors Committee, toward the American Legion Post 136 veterans memorial in Orchard's village park; a second request was denied on February 10, 2026 on the committee's advice to resubmit later. The money. The office (0100-803) spent $40,526.24 in 2023-2024 and $47,892.87 in 2024-2025 (after a $500 budget transfer in June 2025), and the 2025-2026 budget adopts $56,820.00, the officer's $50,419.00 and $449.00 for VetraSpec among it.

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Thresholds for Antelope County Veterans’ Service Office
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Any Antelope County veteran or dependent	Claims help, burial help and grave flag holders need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

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Last updated 2026-10-30.

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