Hayes County Veterans Aid

What the page says. Hayes County's 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 County Service Office, where 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 The test it prints is out of date.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. Where the money is. The filed 2025-2026 budget lists no veterans aid fund among the county's funds and no aid line in its general budget; the only veterans line is the office's $3,150.00 (see the Hayes County office entry). With the office vacant since September 8, 2026, ask the County Clerk, 308-286-3413, what county help the Board will consider, and any county veterans service officer about the State's Nebraska Veterans' Aid fund. See the Nebraska entry on the county fund for the committee's discretion.