Knox County Vet’s Aid Fund

What the page says. The 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 office; 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 The test it prints is out of date.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. Fund 1900, Vet's Aid, held $4,500.00 on July 1, 2023, paid nothing in 2023-2024 and $3,000.00 of emergency relief in 2024-2025, leaving $1,500.00. The 2025-2026 budget sets $4,500.00 of emergency relief, balanced not by a levy but by a $3,000.00 transfer from the general fund, which the Board directed on September 17, 2025 by Resolution 2025-40 because, under section 39-1904, the fund "does not include a property tax dollar request". Apply through the Veterans Service Office, (402) 288-5617; see the Nebraska entry on the county fund for the committee's discretion and the State's own aid fund.