GDVS Americus Veterans Field Service Office (Melissa Ingle), inside Sumter County itself

Sumter County's claims office is in the county seat: the Georgia Department of Veterans Service's Americus Veterans Field Service Office - Senior Veterans Service Officer and Manager Melissa Ingle (229-931-2546), 1601 North Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd, Americus, GA 31719 - which the GDVS's list serves "Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, and Webster"; appointments are preferred with walk-ins 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, Americus, Melissa Ingle, 229-931-2546, 1601 North Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, claims, compensation, pension, Americus, De Soto, Leslie, Plains.

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

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Sumter County, GACounty

The office. The GDVS's find-an-office list carries one row naming Sumter: "Americus - Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, and Webster - 1601 North Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd Americus, GA 31719". The Americus page: "Appointments are preferred, but walk-ins are accepted as time permits." The contact: "Senior Veterans Service Officer and Manager Melissa Ingle" at (229) 931-2546, 1601 North Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd. 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 inside Sumter County - a Sumter veteran walks to the office at 1601 North Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd in Americus rather than travelling to a neighboring county seat, and the same office is the claims route for Crisp County veterans. 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: sumtercountyga.us's pages name the Sheriff's Office, the courts, the Tax Assessor and the rest and no veterans line.

Thresholds

Thresholds for GDVS Americus Veterans Field Service Office (Melissa Ingle), inside Sumter County itself
Gate	Rule
Any Sumter 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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