El Dorado County Department of Veteran Services

The El Dorado County Department of Veteran Services is the county veterans service office California counties run under Military and Veterans Code section 970; see the California entry. The county established it by Board action and describes its accredited staff as serving the county's more than 17,000 veterans, their dependants and survivors. What it does. Counselling and claims help for compensation for service-connected disabilities, Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, the nonservice-connected and death pensions with housebound and aid and attendance allowances, dependent allowances, VA health care enrolment, admissions to the California veterans homes, military record requests and corrections, discharge upgrades, education benefits, the CalVet College Fee Waiver, life insurance and burial reimbursement and headstones. Where and when. The main office is inside the Veteran's Memorial Building, 130 Placerville Drive, Suite B, Placerville 95667; phone 530-621-5892, fax 530-621-2218, [email protected]. Hours are Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with appointments on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, in person or by phone, and walk-ins on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The South Lake Tahoe office, 3368 Sandy Way, is staffed in person on the second and third Tuesday of each month, by appointment, and may close for weather or staffing, so callers should check first. The staff are Jon Brown, Veterans Service Officer; Julie Limbaugh, Senior Veterans Service Representative; Tisha Holy and Sharon Neu, Representatives II; and Chris Diggins, Representative I. The county was proclaimed a Purple Heart County on April 2, 2019.