Hitchcock County Veterans’ Aid Fund

What the page says. Hitchcock 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 The test it prints is out of date.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. A peacetime veteran, or one with a general discharge, should apply anyway. What the fund holds and pays. The 2026-2027 budget's Veterans' Aid fund (1900) held $5,172.45 on July 1, 2024, $5,173.06 on July 1, 2025 and $5,173.67 on July 1, 2026, its only receipt 61 cents a year of in-lieu-of-tax money, and paid nothing in either year; it levies no tax. The 2026-2027 budget offers $5,000.00 of miscellaneous aid. The Board's January 5, 2026 list of county bank accounts names a Hitchcock County Veteran's Aid Fund account under the Veterans Service Office. How to apply. Through the Veterans Service Office, (308) 334-5300, by appointment Tuesday to Thursday (see that entry). See the Nebraska entry on the county fund for the committee's discretion and the State's own aid fund.