Eau Claire County Veterans Services and the Veterans Service Commission

Eau Claire County Veterans Services is at the Government Center, 721 Oxford Avenue, Suite 1130, Eau Claire WI 54703, phone (715) 839-4744, open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome with appointments encouraged. The director is Eric Killen, with assistant VSO Adam Kohls, benefits specialist Angela Deutschlander and admin specialist Beth Risen. The commission and the aid. County code 2.50.300 creates a three-member Veterans Service Commission appointed by the County Board Chair, meeting quarterly with a $30 per diem, furnishing aid under the 45.86 levy limited to county residents, from special fund "100-20-55500 Veterans - direct relief". In practice the 2025 aid ran to 53 gas-and-food-card grants totaling $6,430 (average $121) and a CVTC dental-services program that treated 13 veterans for $9,007, funded by a restricted donation carryforward of about $151,000; the 2026 levy is $313,361 plus a $17,875 state grant. No application form is published; start at the office. The county's own park pass: a free annual entrance sticker for veterans rated 70 percent or more service-connected, paid at the total rate on individual unemployability, or former POWs, certified by the CVSO with a VA rating letter and DD-214 - in place since January 1, 2013, against the $6 daily and $35 annual rates. The DAV van runs to the Minneapolis VA every Tuesday, about 80 to 100 veterans a year, kept alive by a part-time county-paid driver created in March 2026 ($6,912 a year) after eight weeks of 2025 cancellations for lack of volunteers. The register of deeds (Tina Pommier, Suite 1310, (715) 839-4745) records discharges free under section 45.05. The Chippewa Valley Veterans Treatment Court serves the county - see the county's veterans treatment court entry.