GDVS Athens Veterans Field Service Office (Matt Williamson and Carie Lince) serving Oglethorpe County

Oglethorpe County's claims office is the Georgia Department of Veterans Service's Athens Veterans Field Service Office - Veterans Service Officer and Manager Matt Williamson and Veterans Service Officer Carie Lince (706-733-0188, ext. 45575), 9249 U.S. Highway 29, Athens, GA 30601 - which the GDVS's list serves "Barrow, Clarke, Hart, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, and Oglethorpe"; appointments are preferred and walk-ins are accepted as time permits, Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and online scheduling runs through the GDVS's ReFrame link.

Also called: GDVS, Georgia Department of Veterans Service, Veterans Field Service Office, Athens, Matt Williamson, Carie Lince, 706-733-0188, ext. 45575, 9249 U.S. Highway 29, claims, compensation, pension, Lexington, Crawford, Arnoldsville, Maxeys.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Oglethorpe County, GACounty

The office. The GDVS's find-an-office list carries one row naming Oglethorpe: "Athens - Barrow, Clarke, Hart, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, and Oglethorpe - 9249 U.S. Highway 29 Athens, GA 30601". The Athens page: "Appointments are preferred, but walk-ins are accepted as time permits." The contacts: "Veterans Service Officer and Manager Matt Williamson" and "Veterans Service Officer Carie Lince", both at (706) 733-0188, ext. 45575. Hours: "Monday - Friday: 09:00 a.m. - 04:30 p.m." - closed Saturday and Sunday, all Eastern. The page offers online scheduling through ReFrame. In the county. The office is in Athens, in Clarke County, so an Oglethorpe veteran travels there rather than walking to an office in Lexington; no GDVS field office sits inside Oglethorpe County. See the Georgia State entries for the claims the GDVS files. The county's own record. No separate county veterans service office appears on the county site: oglethorpecountyga.gov's menus name the constitutional officers, the courts, the sheriff, the tax offices, the EMS and the senior center, and no veterans line.

Thresholds

Thresholds for GDVS Athens Veterans Field Service Office (Matt Williamson and Carie Lince) serving Oglethorpe County
Gate	Rule
Any Oglethorpe County veteran or family member	GDVS service officers file claims for any veteran or family member; the service is free. No rating is needed.

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Last updated 2026-11-03.

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