Cedar County Veterans Relief

Cedar County budgets $25,000 a year of section 80-102 veterans relief in its general fund and paid none of it in 2023-2024 or 2024-2025; the county’s page still prints the wartime-era and honorable-only test that LB1300 removed.

Also called: county veterans aid, CVA, veterans relief, 80-102, emergency aid, LB1300, Hartington, Laurel, Randolph, Coleridge, Belden, Fordyce, Magnet, Wynot.

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

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Cedar County, NECounty

What the page says. The County Benefits page 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 office; the veteran "must demonstrate an 'inability'" to pay. The test it prints is out of date. The page 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 county spends. Cedar County keeps no separate aid fund. Its general fund's miscellaneous budget (0100-970) carries a Veterans Relief line of $25,000.00 in 2024-2025 and again for 2025-2026, and the filed budget shows nothing spent from it in 2023-2024 or 2024-2025. Apply through the Veterans Service Office, 402-254-7473; see the Nebraska entry on the county fund for the committee's discretion and the State's own aid fund.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Cedar County Veterans Relief
Gate	Rule
Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need	Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general service, a year in Nebraska and six months in Cedar County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.

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Last updated 2026-10-30.

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