Sumner County Veterans Services Office

The Sumner County Veterans Services Office is the county veteran service office under 58-3-109; see the Tennessee entry. It is county-funded, works with local veterans organizations and the Tennessee Department of Veterans Services, and helps veterans and their families apply for VA benefits at no cost. In the first three months of fiscal 2026 it filed 357 claims and saw about 170 people a month; its reports to the County Commission's Legislative Committee describe appeals and permanent and total ratings won. Where. 355 N. Belvedere Drive, Room 114, Gallatin 37066; 615-451-6014 (fax 615-442-1158; [email protected]). Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to noon; call for an appointment. The office makes home visits to housebound veterans and holds outreach in Hendersonville, Westmoreland and Portland in the first week of each month. Director Jeff Oakey. Where its benefits list is short. The office's list of benefits by rating says the state property tax relief is for "100% P&T Veterans and surviving spouses". Section 67-5-704 also covers a veteran with paraplegia, legal blindness or the loss or loss of use of two or more limbs from a service-connected cause, at any rating; see the Tennessee entry and the Sumner County Trustee entry. It also says a survivor gets Dependency and Indemnity Compensation only if the service-connected disability is on the death certificate or the veteran was rated permanent and total for ten years. VA also pays it where the veteran was rated totally disabled for ten years before death, for five years from discharge, or for one year as a former prisoner of war, and for a death in service; ask the office about any survivor claim.