Columbia County Veterans Service Office

Columbia County's Veterans Service Office in the Administration Building, 112 E. Edgewater Street, Portage (608-742-9618, fax 608-742-9634), led by County Veterans Service Officer Kent Telford with Assistant CVSO Annalee Giuffre, provides benefits counseling, claims assistance and referrals across federal, State and county veterans programmes, weekdays 8 to 4:30.

Also called: CVSO, veterans service officer, Kent Telford, Annalee Giuffre, Rebekka Cary, claims, benefits counseling, Portage, 112 E. Edgewater Street, 608-742-9618, [email protected], Portage, Columbus, Fall River, Wisconsin Dells, Lodi, Rio, Pardeeville, Wyocena, Poynette, Randolph, Cambria, Doylestown, Friesland.

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

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Columbia County, WICounty

The office. Columbia County's Veterans Service Office: "Provide veterans and their families with benefits counseling, claims assistance, and/or referrals, in all Federal, State, & Local veterans programs." Administration Building, 112 E. Edgewater Street, Portage, WI 53901; 608-742-9618, fax 608-742-9634, [email protected] (the relief application's return address) and [email protected]; weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Who. The County Board elected Kent Telford as County Veterans Service Officer on March 18, 2026, 24 votes to none with four absent, on the recommendation of the county's CVSO Interview Committee; he had been Assistant CVSO through the 2025 commission minutes, and Rebekka Cary was CVSO & Executive Secretary through December 2025. Annalee Giuffre is Assistant CVSO as of the August 2026 commission minutes. What it links. The office's pages carry the federal programmes (VA health care and eligibility, disability compensation, pensions, GI Bill and dependents' education, vocational rehabilitation, home loans, burial allowances and flags, headstones, records correction and discharge upgrade, the e-Benefits portal), the State's (WI GI Bill, retraining and education grants, emergency aid, homeless veterans assistance, the State homes and cemeteries, employment help, the occupational licence fee waiver, the veterans and widows property tax credit, the park and trail pass, hunting and fishing licences, the DMV veteran identifier), and the county's own relief fund (its own entry). The rides. The office's page gives the DAV transport line to the VA hospital: call 608-772-4761; the Vet Center call centre at 877-927-8387; the Veterans Crisis Line, 988 then 1; and the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans, 1-877-424-3838. Accreditation warning the commission recorded. At its October 17, 2025 meeting the commission discussed the veteran-benefit advertisements appearing on social media and advised veterans to check the source and to use only representatives accredited with the VA.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Columbia County Veterans Service Office
Gate	Rule
Any veteran or family member	The office assists Columbia County veterans and their families with claims, relief grants and referrals. No rating is required.

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Last updated 2026-10-25.

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