Dawes County Veterans Aid Fund

What the fund holds. Fund 1900, the Veterans Aid Fund, levies no tax and lives on its balance and a little interest. It held $11,102.63 on July 1, 2023 and paid $2,866.89 in 2023-2024 ($1,509.89 for rent and fuel, $428.00 medical, $400.00 for county burials and $529.00 miscellaneous) and $1,702.22 in 2024-2025 ($975.00 for burials, $635.71 for rent and fuel and $91.51 of travel), holding $6,565.48 on July 1, 2025. The filed 2025-2026 budget sets $6,580.48: $1,500.00 for burials, $250.00 each for travel, provisions and clothing, rent and fuel, and medical care, and $4,080.48 miscellaneous. What it paid this year. The Commissioners' claims show the fund paying the Veterans Service Office $516.65 on November 10, 2025, $100.00 on November 25, $250.00 on December 9 and $250.00 on December 22, 2025, $230.00 on June 23, 2026, and $760.00 with a $217.35 card claim on September 22, 2026. Who qualifies. Section 80-102 lets the county veterans service committee aid a veteran, a spouse, a surviving spouse or a minor child in need. Since LB1300 (Laws 2024, section 45) the veteran need only have served, been discharged honorable or general (under honorable conditions) or died in service, and lived a year in Nebraska and six months in the county; there is no wartime test. Apply through the Veterans Service Office, (308) 432-0119; see the Nebraska entry on the county fund for the committee's discretion and the State's own aid fund.