Mississippi Disabled Veteran License Plate at 70%

Under Miss. Code Ann. Section 27-19-53 a Mississippi resident veteran rated at 100 percent permanent service-connected disability, or at least 70 percent nonpermanent service-connected disability, may obtain up to two motor vehicle license plates and one motorcycle tag annually for one dollar each in total cost, in the county of legal residence. The plates display the veteran's branch of service. The 70 percent path is the headline, and the state is hiding it. The Mississippi Veterans Affairs state benefits page describes this plate as requiring a 100 percent service-connected disability evaluated as permanent and total, or a total rating based on individual unemployability evaluated as permanent and total. It does not mention the 70 percent nonpermanent path at all. The statute has it, and the agency's own benefit guidebook has it. A veteran at 70 or 80 percent who reads the Mississippi Veterans Affairs website will conclude they do not qualify, and they do. Take the statute to the county tax collector. The renewal condition attaches only to the nonpermanent path. A veteran qualifying at 70 percent nonpermanent must provide an updated VA benefit summary letter to renew, every year. A veteran at 100 percent permanent does not. Pull the letter from VA.gov before the tag expires rather than at the counter. Only the first plate is free of the other charges. The statute gives the dollar price for the qualifying plates; additional plates beyond the exempt one carry the regular privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes, and registration fees. Read the count carefully with the tax collector, because this is where the bill appears. An unmarried surviving spouse of a qualifying veteran may obtain the plate. Apply at the county tax collector's office with the VA documentation. Mississippi runs more than seventy distinctive military and veteran plates through the Department of Revenue, and the general veteran plates carry a thirty dollar additional fee, of which twenty-four dollars supports indigent veterans in the State Veterans Nursing Homes and the State Veterans Memorial Cemeteries. Those thirty dollar plates are a different thing from this one: this one costs a dollar. Adjacent plates worth knowing. A Purple Heart plate is authorized for five motor vehicles and one motorcycle, with only the first exempt from taxes and fees. Medal of Honor, Silver Star, and former prisoner of war plates are exempt from registration fees and privilege taxes, and the Medal of Honor plate requires a certificate from Mississippi Veterans Affairs first. A Gold Star family plate reaches a wide list of relatives of a member killed in action or who died in a combat zone. SB 2052 of 2025 added a "100% Disabled Veteran" or "Disabled Veteran" label option on the privilege tag for a resident rated 100 percent permanent service-connected. SB 2834 of 2026 authorized a United States Space Force veteran plate.