Lancaster County Veterans Service Office

The Lancaster County Veterans Service Office is at the Victory Park Campus, 600 South 70th Street, Building #2, Suite #200, Lincoln, NE 68510, phone (402) 441-7361, fax (402) 441-7392, email [email protected]. Hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., except that on the third Thursday of every month the office closes from 11:30 to 1:00 for its monthly staff meeting and training. The county veterans service officer is Mark Lakamp, with veterans service case workers Susan Baumann, Mark McDonald and Jason Meyer and veterans service specialist Donna Reifschneider, per the county's page and the Nebraska Department of Veterans Affairs' directory (updated September 9, 2026). The campus. The office points out that the location, previously the home of the Veterans Affairs hospital, provides adjacent parking, ground-level access, immediate proximity to a StarTran route, and multiple service providers in one location, including the City of Lincoln's Aging Partners and the Veterans Health Administration's Community-Based Outpatient Clinic. Services. Assistance and advice when applying for state and federal benefits; emergency financial assistance; and veteran advocacy. Call to schedule an appointment with a Veterans Service Officer. County veterans aid. Under section 80-102 the county's veterans service committee pays aid including food, shelter, fuel, wearing apparel, medical or surgical aid and funeral expenses from a fund the county board may raise with a levy of up to one cent on each one hundred dollars of taxable value, for a veteran honorably or generally (under honorable conditions) discharged who has lived in Nebraska a year and in Lancaster County six months, and for the veteran's spouse, surviving spouse and minor children under eighteen. The homestead exemption applications for Lancaster County property go to the county assessor, as the State's homestead entry explains.