Brown County (Nebraska) Veterans Aid Fund

What the page says. Brown County's County Benefits panel calls the CVA fund "a temporary emergency fund to assist veterans, their spouses, and dependents when there is an unforeseen emergency and there are no other resources available", for food, shelter, clothing, funeral, medical, dental and surgical items, applied for through the County Service Office, where the veteran "must demonstrate an 'inability'" to pay. The test it prints is out of date. The panel limits the fund to veterans who "received an Honorable Discharge, and served during one of the defined 'wartime eras'". LB1300 (Laws 2024, section 45) struck the wartime-service test from section 80-102, which now reaches a veteran discharged honorable or general (under honorable conditions), or who died in service, who has lived a year in Nebraska and six months in the county, and a spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. A peacetime veteran, or one with a general discharge, should apply anyway. What the fund holds and pays. The filed 2025-2026 budget's Veterans Aid Fund (1900) held $13,497.54 on July 1, 2023, paid nothing in 2023-2024, and in 2024-2025 paid $2,123.79 for bronze veteran grave markers (the January 7, 2025 claims to Carrot-Top Markers), leaving $11,373.75 on July 1, 2025. The fund has no levy and recorded no receipts in either year. The 2025-2026 budget spreads the balance over county burials ($3,773.75), grave markers ($4,000.00), medical and hospital costs ($1,800.00), rent and fuel ($1,000.00), provisions and clothing ($500.00) and assistance ($300.00). How to apply. Through the Veterans Service Office, (402) 387-0233 (see that entry). See the Nebraska entries on the county fund and on the county's burial and grave-marker duty.