Bucks County Department of Veterans Affairs

The Department of Veterans Affairs is the office every Pennsylvania county must have: a director of veterans affairs appointed by the commissioners (16 Pa.C.S. 15524) and holding VA accreditation (51 Pa.C.S. 1731). See the Pennsylvania entry on county directors. Its director is Matthew Allen. How to reach it. 215-345-3307, by appointment only, weekdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Bucks County Administration Building, 55 East Court Street, first floor, Doylestown, or the Government Services Center, 7321 New Falls Road, Levittown. The discount card appointments go through 215-345-3885. What it does. VA claims; the county burial allowance, headstone settings, grave markers and Memorial Day flags; the county veteran discount card (see its entry); and the State programmes that go through a county director, including the real estate tax exemption and Veterans' Temporary Assistance. The Veteran's Van takes veterans from set points in the county to the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, the Victor J. Saracini VA clinic in Horsham and the Coatesville VA Medical Center; call the office for the schedule. The department also runs a yearly Veterans Expo (October 10, 2025, at Parx Casino), and in 2026 it received a $9,036 State Veterans Trust Fund grant for outreach. The temporary assistance page is out of date. It describes "temporary emergency funds" for honorably discharged veterans "of any war or armed conflict", for at most three months, for veterans who must be unemployed, have lost income within 180 days and receive no public assistance. Act 109 of 2016 rewrote 51 Pa.C.S. Chapter 85. Today an eligible veteran is anyone discharged other than dishonorably after active duty other than for training, or who died in service, or who has a service-connected disability, with no wartime test; the need can come from sickness, disability, unemployment, a disaster or a rise in costs beyond the applicant's control; receiving food stamps does not disqualify; and the cap is a maximum per twelve months, not three months. The unmarried surviving spouse, dependent children and dependent parents are covered. See the Pennsylvania entry, and apply even if the county page suggests you would not qualify. A second line to read with care. The flags page asks veterans' organizations to write to the Department of Military Affairs at Neshaminy Manor Center, an older name and address for the same office; the department's current offices are the two above.